QURGHON TEPPA, July 3, «Asia-Plus» -- A state-of-the-arts Oncology Center having surgical and therapeutic departments has opened in Qurghon Teppa, the capital of the Khatlon province.  

The Center head Idibek Qarayev speaking to journalists noted that the Khatlon regional budget had provided 1.45 million Somonis for constructing a two-storied building for the Center.  The Oncology Center has been built in the place of the tuberculosis-treatment hospital that has been moved to the Zargari jamoat in the Bokhtar district of the region.  

“Local authorities have also provided 300,000 Somonis for purchasing the equipment for the Center,” Mr. Qarayev said, noting that funds for purchasing equipment for the Center’s x-ray lab had been provided by the Republican Oncology Center .  

25 medical workers are working with the Oncology Center in Qurghon Teppa.  Of them, two have taken training courses in St. Petersburg .  “Over the first six months of this year alone, more than 250 cancerous patients have been registered in the region,” Idibek Qarayev said.