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Antigua.news Antigua and Barbuda No new updates on the Cancer Centre

No new updates on the Cancer Centre

23 January 2025 - 12:35

No new updates on the Cancer Centre

23 January 2025 - 12:35

No new updates on the Cancer Centre

There is still no apparent timeline for when the opening of Cancer Centre will take place.

Chief of Staff in the Prime Minister’s Office Lionel Hurst did not have any updates on the health facility during this week’s Post Cabinet Press Briefing.

The new owners of the facility were undergoing equipment assessments after purchasing the Michael’s Mount building during the summer of 2024 for EC$13 million.

Delays then ensued again after the previous owner demanded to be paid a significant amount of money for what was reported to be “old equipment”.

A legal dispute then followed by the previous owner.

“The question about the equipment on the inside has posed some difficulty. The advice we have gotten from experts is to replace them rather than to rehabilitate them.

So, we are looking at what essentially is scrap so the answer to the previous owners who wanted a significant amount for basically scrap metal,” Hurst added.

The Centre closed its doors back in April 2023 but news broke that it would be reopened but under new management many cancer patients and members of the public expressed delight as it would be more convenient and less costly to seek treatment rather than having to travel.

 

 

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3 Comments

  1. Yeah, tell me about it same old same old. You haven’t said anything that we don’t already know. I’m glad you realize how costly it is to travel for treatment overseas for the poorer ones

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  2. Stop refusing to publish opinions that do not further your personal cause(s) of promotihg opposition rhetoric..

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  3. Bla bla bla bla. Fed up with th3 cancer center stories. Always a big joke whenever the government gets involved in something

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