The Institute of Oncology has received a new grant from the WHO and the EU
More chances for life for cancer patients in our country. A state-of-the-art ultrasound machine for early detection of the disease was donated today to the Cancer Institute. The consignment also includes drugs needed for chemotherapy, which are hard to find and expensive.
State-of-the-art ultrasound will help detect cancer early. The machine has already been installed and patients are benefiting from ultrasound diagnosis of abdominal pathologies. At the same time, many undergo invasive procedures, including image-guided biopsies.
"This machine is high-performance and state-of-the-art, it is multi-functional, it has dopplerography, biopsy function and has four probes. In the polyclinic there are three machines, not so high performance of course, and even more so since it is the Oncological Institute ", says doctor Valentin Tatian.
The two thousand ampoules will be used mainly to treat breast cancer patients, but also people with gastric cancer. In 25% of all breast cancer cases in our country, this preparation is needed for treatment.
"It is an equipment that is becoming more and more accessible in clinical practice. It allows both the diagnosis of different formations and tumours and ultrasound-guided punctures that allow biopsy of different forms of tumours ", says the director of the Oncology Institute, Ruslan Baltaga.
"A very important and long-awaited donation for the specialists at the Oncological Institute. In this case we are talking about an ultrasonograph which, in addition to its basic performance functions, also has the absolutely necessary function of ultrasound diagnosis of pathologies ", points out the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Health, Ion Prisăcaru.
"This ultrasound machine will contribute to the early detection of cancer. These drugs are for chemotherapy, and the quantity of two thousand vials is sufficient for the treatment of patients for three months ", said the WHO representative in Moldova, Miljana Grbic.
The total value of the donation provided by the World Health Organisation with the financial support of the European Union and the Government of Canada is 370 thousand dollars.
