Prime Minister David Eby says the city of Nanaimo, on central Vancouver Island, is the latest community in British Columbia to receive state approval for a cancer treatment center.
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The center will be based at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.
The announcement follows Thursday’s long-awaited approval of a new cancer treatment facility at the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops.
The government also recently approved the temporary sending of cancer patients from BC to clinics in neighboring Washington state to reduce waiting lists at the province’s treatment centers.
Eby says the Nanaimo Cancer Center is expected to offer radiation therapy, an outpatient care unit and the latest diagnostic technology.
A government statement said it was part of the province’s 10-year cancer action plan, but did not give a completion date for the proposed Vancouver Island facility.
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