Heart and Cancer Centre

A first of its kind in East Africa, the centre provides high quality care and treatment based on international standards for full spectrum of heart and cancer conditions. The population of sub-saharan Africa can now access specialised care with confidence and without having to travel abroad for treatment.

The centre located at the Jimmy Sayani Building consists of five operating theatres, twenty-three intensive care beds (including a cardiotherapic intensive care unit) and separate coronary intensive care unit, neonatal intensive care unit and two radiation therapy units for cancer treatment.

Services offered at Heart and Cancer Centre are as following:

Cardiology

Cardiology Ambulatory Heart Clinic
Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory (Cath Lab)
Cardiac rehabilitation Services
Cardiology Services
Cardiometabolic Risk (CMR) Clinic
Echocardiography
Electrocardiogram (ECG)
Exercise Stress Testing
Holter Monitoring
Interventional Monitoring
Open Heart Surgery
Tavi-first in Africa to offer this service

Critical Care

Cardio Thoracic Intensive Care Unit (CTICU)
Coronary Care Unit (CCU)
High Dependency Unit (HDU)
Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Unit (MICU)
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Pediatric High dependency Unit (PHDU)

Oncology

Outpatient cancer care

The Outpatient Cancer Care (OCC) is part of our larger Comprehensive Oncology Program. The facility is designed to provide an integrated, patient-centered service accross the care cycle from diagnosis through treatment, survivorship and palliative care.

The Outpatient Cancer Care also offers streamlined, efficient care by our multidisciplinary team of specialists. This coordinated approach allows us to offer all inclusive care to cancer patients and their families as a one stop service.

Breast centre

The Breast Centre offers services to patients with any form of breast problems and to individuals seeking information and or breast health education.

The clinic also offers breast conservation surgery, an operation done to treat breast cancer with the removal of as little breast tissue as possible. This is achieved through a procedure known as Breast Conserving Therapy (BCT) where removal of the tumor cells is followed with radiation therapy to the remaining healthy cells of the breasts.

With modern surgical techniques, BCT has excellent cosmetic results (i.e. treated and untreated breast are almost identical or only slight differences) especially with the current use of oncoplastic techniques.

Brachytherapy for cervical cancer treatment

A Brachytherapy is a type of radiotherapy that can be used to treat cervical cancer. In Brachytherapy, the radioactive source is placed as close to the tumour as possible to deliver a very high dose in a localised area. This reduces the risk of unnecessary damage to the healthy tissue and organs close to the tumour.

Palliative care

Palliative care is a medical specialty that focuses on comfort, relief of symptoms, and clarifying patient’s treatment goals. It can be offered concurrently with other medical therapies for any seriously ill patient with any disease or condition, particularly when there are physical, psycho-social, or spiritual complications.

The main aim is to treat the patient’s symptoms, provide supportive care while understanding the patient’s aspirations and goals. It also ensures that patients and their families are fully informed of the diagnosis and the likely outcomes in a timely, sensitive and appropriate manner. Palliative care involves treating the patient’s pain, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, weight loss, loss of appetite, difficulty in breathing and many others.

Patients requiring palliative care services can be attended to through referral by their primary doctor and book an appointment or as walk-ins.

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy or chemo is a treatment method that uses drugs to damage cancer cells. Chemo is most effective when given as a combination of two or more drugs used together.

The Chemo Unit is equipped with reclining seats for patients' comfort. The length of stay for treatments is between half hour to eight hours, depending on the type of treatment. The daily administration of chemotherapy allows patients to go home the same day after chemotherapy infusion.

Radiation therapy

Radiation therapy or radiotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses high-energy radiation to shrink tumors and kill cancer cells. Patients referred for or undergoing radiotherapy treatment are seen by our radiation oncologist in the oncology clinics offering a wide range of services including 3D confromal and select cases for IMRT.

CT Simulator for radiation therapy planning

A CT Simulator is a dedicated wide wall CT Scanner that a radiation oncologist uses to map out the exact area of treatment.

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