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- Expansion will allow the department to increase its capacity from 260 to about 400 patients a month
AMMAN: Queen Rania of Jordan officially opened a new radiation oncology building at the King Hussein Cancer Center in Amman on Wednesday.
The new facility, which has 2,700 square meters of space and is equipped with cutting-edge medical technology, will allow the radiation oncology department to increase the number of patients it treats each month from 260 to about 400, the Jordan News Agency reported.
During her visit to the center, the queen toured key departments, including Jordan’s first neurosurgery suite, which has successfully carried out more than 300 operations since it opened in 2019. She also saw the pediatrics department, which provides care for about 90 percent of the all pediatric cancer patients in the country.
“Over the past 25 years, the King Hussein Cancer Center has become a cornerstone of cancer care in the region, serving more than 70,000 patients,” said Princess Ghida Talal, chairperson of the King Hussein Cancer Foundation and Center.
Each year, the center, which covers an area of 108,700 square meters, handles 7,000 new patients, 14,000 admissions and 250,000 outpatient visits, officials said, and provides essential radiotherapy services required by about 60 percent of the patients it treats.
Its key facilities include the country’s first public umbilical cord blood bank, specialized intensive-care units, diagnostic and therapeutic radiology departments, a cellular therapy and applied genomics department, and a bone marrow-transplant program.
Other dignitaries who joined the queen at the inauguration ceremony on Wednesday included several other members of the royal family and Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh.