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Hospital gets transit home

Over 2.5 million spent for project :

A transit home will be set up at the Maharagama Cancer Hospital at a cost of Rs 2.5 million. The home will ease the hardships faced by outdoor cancer patients visiting the hospital for treatment, a Health Ministry spokesman said.

The spokesman said that at the moment there is only one transit home at this hospital. It provides food, accommodation and all the other facilities free of charge for 250 patients and their guardians. This is the second transit home to be set up at the hospital. It is the responsibility of the hospital to provide accommodation and other facilities for transit patients. Similar facilities are available for transit patients in developed countries.

Daily, a large number of cancer patients and their guardians visit Maharagama Cancer Hospital for treatment.

They visit the hospital in the evening and spend the night inside wards, corridors and under trees without any facilities. The following day, they obtain treatment and go back to their villages. It was difficult for the health staff to carry out their duties inside congested wards and corridors.

The hospital accept more donations for the public. Transit homes solve this problem, he said.

The required funds are to be handed over to the Health development Fund by MAS Holdings. The CCC Foundation is handling the project. MAS Holdings donated another Rs.100 million to the health sector to mark its 20th anniversary. Under this program Rs 46 million worth medical equipment would be provided to the OPD of the hospital. Rs 34 million worth medical equipments to be provided to expand the Medical ICU and surgical ICU, he added.

Usually 70 percent of cancer patients die before five years of diagnosis and only 30 percent survive more than five years.

The aim of the project is providing the maximum care and comfort for cancer patients.

 

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