text: According to one nurse Janet Nongoma Kwiri who is in charge of the outpatients’ wing, the commissioning of the adult section is a major cause of celebration.
  She told The Sunrise that the old facility just adjacent to the new building could accommodate cancer patients only until the year 2000. But since then, the number of cancer patients has quadrupled to about 10-17 new cancer cases being received at the clinic daily.
  “There has been a lot of pressure on a very small facility but with the transfer of the clinic to this spacious facility we are very happy that our work in cancer treatment is going to be easier and more effective,” Nangoma said.
  Alfonse Nfulangani, one of the cancer patients from Kamuli district, expressed gratitude to the donors for making it possible for cancer patients in Uganda to access expensive cancer drugs free of charge.
  “All of us know how expensive cancer treatment is to the extent that drugs being prescribed to us would be completely out of reach with many us. But we are so thankful that we can now get them here free of charge,” Nfulangani said.
  Making this new wing accessible to the public, means that the state of the art cancer facility is now fully functional with three independent wings including the first two sections of research and paediatrics (children ward) which started operating since the May 2016.
  Magdalene Kintu, the site administrator representing the Fred hutch foundation which funded the construction of the facility told The Sunrise that the full functioning of the facility is a landmark in the cancer treatment and research in Uganda.