Consolata Hospital Nyeri CEO Mureithi Kiriani (left) and MP Shah Hospital chairman Manoj Shah sign documents during the launch of a partnership for a cancer care centre with HCG in Nairobi yesterday. Looking on is HCG chairman and CEO Shivarudrappa Ajaikumar. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU | NMG
Through HCG Kenya, the Indian firm will have a 77.6 per cent stake in the facility while MP Shah Hospital will have 10 per cent with other partners controlling 12.4 per cent.
The centre will occupy two floors of the upcoming MP Shah Hospital complex in Parklands, Nairobi.
The eight-storey building will house oncology wards, physiotherapy and maternity units with an expected capacity of between 100 and 300 beds.
Bangalore-based HealthCare Global Enterprises Ltd (HCG), one of India’s largest cancer treatment hospital chains, has partnered with Cancer Care Kenya Ltd (CCK) and MP Shah Hospital to invest $6.25 million (Sh643 million) in a cancer centre in Nairobi.
Through HCG Kenya, the Indian firm will have a 77.6 per cent stake in the facility while MP Shah Hospital will have 10 per cent with other partners controlling 12.4 per cent.
The centre will occupy two floors of the upcoming MP Shah Hospital complex in Parklands, Nairobi.
The eight-storey building will house oncology wards, physiotherapy and maternity units with an expected capacity of between 100 and 300 beds.
“We want to make sure that we reduce the enormous economic impact of Kenyan patients who come to India seeking the same treatment by providing the same here through MP Shah and other oncology hospitals in the long run,” said HCG Enterprises Ltd founder and chairman, Dr BS Ajaikumar.
Kenyans seeking PET CT scan currently fly to India, South Africa, Egypt and Morocco at a cost of $2,200 a session or $4,000 inclusive of travel and accommodation, HCG Africa Director Dinesh Madhavan said.
“This cost will be cut by about 40 per cent come April 2018 when we set up the PET CT at the HCG CCK facility at MP Shah. We are certain the services will be up by then,” he said.
The centre will provide comprehensive cancer care services, with the PET CT scan made available to the first patients in the country from April 2018. Further technologies like 10 Channel Brachy Therapy, Tomotherapy H and TrueBeam STx for advanced cancer treatment will be introduced as well.
