KATHMANDU, AUGUST 17

Suresh Wagle Cancer Centre has been constructed at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital. The facility, with the capacity to accommodate 140 beds, was built with the aim of providing specialised services to cancer patients.

It was constructed with an investment of Rs 550 million.

The centre will be inaugurated soon. The new facility will have a 50-bed cancer ward, 20-bed ICU ward, 30- bed HDU ward, and a 15-bed day care chemotherapy ward, among other services, according to the hospital's executive director Dr Dinesh Kafle. Besides these, the centre will also have three radiotherapy bunkers, ambulatory bed, bone marrow transplant centre, among other services.

'At present, the centre block is being used for treating and keeping COVID-19 patients,'

Dr Kafle said.

According to him, the hospital block is eight-storey tall, including the underground portion. Established on 15 July 1983, the TUTH had started its services from 300 beds in the beginning. It is now providing its service through 1,000 beds. The hospital operated under the Institute of Medicine, has been providing OPD services to nearly 2,000 patients on a daily basis.

'TUTH has been treating patients through 36 departments,' executive director Dr Kafle said. The TUTH provided OPD services to 450,000 patients in the last fiscal. It had also treated 1,700 patients with long-term ailments.

A version of this article appears in the print on August 18, 2022 of The Himalayan Times.