More Than 8,00,000 Patients Treated In PAEC Hospitals Annually

Umer Jamshaid Published September 19, 2017 | 01:15 PM

More than 8,00,000 (0.8 Million) patients receive diagnostic and therapeutic services annually, at 18 hospitals running under Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th Sep, 2017 ) : More than 8,00,000 (0.8 Million) patients receive diagnostic and therapeutic services annually, at 18 hospitals running under Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC).

The hospital cater 80 percent cancer patients of the country, majority of them either receive treatment free of cost or at subsidized rates. Two more hospitals - one in Gilgit and the other in Mardan - are also in the pipeline which would be completed soon, an official of the commission told APP.

The eighteen Cancer hospitals rendering services in different parts of the country included (Swat Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Oncology and Radiotherapy), Swat (SINOR), (Institute of Nuclear Medicine Oncology and Radiotherapy), Abbottabad (INOR), Institute of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine), Peshawar (IRNUM), Bannu Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Oncology and Radiotherapy), Bannu, (BINOR).

Besides that Dera Ismail Khan Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy, D.

I. Khan, (Dinar), Center for Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy, Quetta, (CENAR), Atomic Energy Mineral Center, Karachi, AEMC, Karachi Institute of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine), Karachi, (KIRAN), Nuclear Institute of Medicine and Radiotherapy), Jamshoro, (NIMRA) and Nuclear Medicine, Oncology and Radiotherapy Institute, Nawabshah, (NORIN).

Other centers are Larkana Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy (LINAR), Multan Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy (MINAR), Bahawalpur Institute of Nuclear Oncology (BINO), Punjab Institute of Nuclear Medicine), Faisalabad (PINUM), Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology Lahore, (INMOL), (Center for Nuclear Medicine), Lahore, GINUM (Gujranwala Institute of Nuclear Medicine (GINUM) and one in Federal capital Nuclear Medicine, Oncology and Radiotherapy Institute, (Islamabad NORI).