President Ivan Duke and the Minister of Health Ferdinand Ruiztoured this Friday, in the company of the businessman Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulothe Center for Cancer Treatment and Research, a place that seeks to become a world leader in care against this disease.
(The advances that cancer treatments have had).
“We highlight the contribution to health and the philanthropic and patriotic sense of Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo, who contributed 400 million dollars to this center, which aims to be a world reference in the care and research of the different types of cancer”, President Duque highlighted this Friday during the tour, where he also announced the fourth dose of the covid vaccine for people over 50 years of age.
This complex has 176 rooms, 30 intensive care unit beds, in the first stage, and has 100 thousand square meters built. The project also includes other buildings and a hotel for lodging relatives of patients.
(They create molecule for drugs against cancer).
The Head of State highlighted that the CTIC “It will gradually develop new research, new analyzes that contribute to confronting the different forms of cancer.”
Likewise, he stressed that the technology and scientific equipment installed “They have nothing to envy to any of the main centers in the world for cancer treatment and research”.
For his part, Sarmiento Angulo stated that “cancer is one of the plagues that most affects our entire population, not only in Colombia; around the world”.
“We are with the best there is at the present time; the best equipment, the most modern”indicated Sarmiento and added that any surplus generated should be used for the permanent improvement of equipment and technology in the hospital.
He explained that Colombia had a low level of research on the disease and now the CTIC, with one of its buildings, of 10 thousand square meters of construction, will be dedicated exclusively to research.
In the coming weeks, the CTIC will start operations and the official opening ceremony will be held.
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