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10:30 CAT | 26 May 2016
Mozambique spends nearly US$4 million a year sending cancer patients to other countries for radiotherapy treatment.
National Director of Medical Assistance Ussene Isse said that a radiotherapy session in South Africa, with whom Mozambique has a treatment agreement, costs up to 80,000 rands, equivalent to about 280,000 meticais.
Some Mozambican cancer patients are treated in Portugal and India.
According to Isse, last year Mozambique transferred 25 prostate, liver, cervix and breast cancer patients to these destinations for treatment.
Source: Rádio Moçambique
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