New Cancer Care Centre is a Source of Hope for Tanzania

Princess Zahra today joined guests and supporters to celebrate the inauguration of a new Cancer Care Centre at the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar-es-Salaam. The new state-of-the-art facility represents a big leap forward in the battle against cancer in East Africa.

The Centre launches at a pivotal moment for Tanzania, a country that grapples with limited medical resources and escalating patient needs. The new facility is expected to drastically reduce the strain on the existing Ocean Road Cancer Institute, which currently shoulders the burden of the country's cancer care, and will enhance screening, diagnosis, treatment, and palliative care capacity for up to 1.7 million people in the Dar es Salaam and Mwanza regions.

In her remarks to guests, Princess Zahra spoke of the quality of care that the new Centre will help to provide for patients in the region.

“Today, to see this incredible tertiary investment in Dar es Salaam,” she said, “is a testament not only to the progress that Tanzania is making in healthcare, progress that AKDN, the Aga Khan Health Services, and Aga Khan University are causing to happen in the countries where we work, but also to the vision of this system to be able to provide health care to millions at the primary level, but also provide advances to this level of care, where we're really seeing the height of technology in healthcare.” 

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