Chitwan-based BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital has launched the ‘flow cytometry’ service.
Dr. Umesh Nepal, Deputy-Director at the hospital, told RSS, the state-owned news agency, that necessary equipment worth Rs 15 million have been installed to launch the service which is used to detect the type of blood cancer.
In the absence of the service, the hospital had to send the samples to India or Kathmandu, which cost more and delayed the result.
In order to operate the machine, the hospital had sent a doctor and a technician to Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital, India, for training, according to RSS.
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Dr Shivaji Poudel, Executive Director of the hospital, had earlier told RSS that it took more than 15 days to get the test report. With the launch of the service, the patients could now get it within five days.
Similarly, the test would now cost Rs 12,000, down from Rs 30,000 earlier, according to the hospital.
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“The service has made it easier to make early diagnosis,” Paudel said, adding that the hospital also plans to resume mammogram service, which has remained disrupted for a long time.
RSS
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