PESHAWAR: The second Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre will start operations in Peshawar on Tuesday (today).
Imran Khan, the chairman of Board of Governors Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust, will inaugurate the hospital having eight-storey structures in Hayatabad Township.
ANP provincial president Ameer Haider Khan Hoti, who allotted land for the hospital, has also been invited to the inaugural ceremony.
In the first phase, the hospital will provide X-ray, CT scan, MRI, chemotherapy and pathological services to the patients that will be followed by radiation services in the second phase, planned by 2015, and surgery after one year.
Initially, there would be 20 chemotherapy beds, six emergency room beds, 12 admission beds, two intensive care unit beds, radiology services, including mammography, plain radiology and ultrasonography and pathology laboratory at the hospital.
“It will be 30 per cent bigger than SKMCH&RC Lahore with more sophisticated equipment,” said Dr Faisal Sultan, the chief executive officer SKMCH&RC Lahore. Lahore hospital, which was built in 1994, has 200 beds and the strength of beds will reach to 400 over a period of three years.