Nineveh Council member Ahmed Al-Dobardani announced The completion rate of the Oncology and Nuclear Medicine Hospital in Nineveh has reached 90 percent, and it is expected to be fully completed early next year .
Al-Dobardani said, “The new hospital will include 3 linear accelerators,” indicating that “the local government has contracted for one of the devices, the Ministry of Health will contract for the second, while the Reconstruction Fund will contract for the third device .”
Regarding the linear accelerators at the University of Mosul Research Center, Nineveh Council member Ahmed Al-Dubardani confirmed that their maintenance and repair were delayed due to the delay of the French grant for the project to maintain and repair those devices .
He explained that “at the end of this year, the French government is supposed to provide this grant and contract with one of the international companies to maintain the two linear accelerators that are used to provide radiation therapy to cancer patients .”
The project to build the Oncology and Nuclear Medicine Hospital in Nineveh is witnessing a clear delay, as it was supposed to be completed by the end of 2021. The Oncology and Nuclear Medicine Hospital project in Mosul is being implemented by the UNDP .
Cancer patients in Nineveh Governorate suffer from many problems, most notably the lack of completion of a specialized hospital for cancer diseases, and the lack of linear accelerators that provide radiation treatments, which forces patients to travel outside Iraq or to other Iraqi governorates to receive the required treatment .
The Minister of Health, Saleh Mahdi Al-Hasnawi, said during a dialogue session at the Al-Rafidain Dialogue Forum on April 6, 2024, that Nineveh Governorate has the highest rate of cancer cases, and not as is rumored that Basra Governorate has the highest.
