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International Blantyre Cancer Centre
The International Blantyre Cancer Centre (IBCC) is a private, specialised, tertiary care medical facility owned by the Thomson and Barbara Mpinganjira Foundation. It is the first and only free-standing cancer treatment and research centre in Malawi's Southern Region. The centre was opened by Lazarus Chakwera, the President of Malawi, on 5 March 2024. Location The facility is located in the neighborhood known as ''Nyambadwe'', in the city of Blantyre, in the Southern Region, Malawi, Southern Region of Malawi. Overview IBCC is a cancer treatment, research, and teaching centre, owned and operated by the Thomson and Barbara Mpinganjira Foundation. The facility offers 60 inpatient beds. On offer are screening and diagnostic services on an outpatient basis. Inpatient services include both chemotherapy and radiotherapy services. The cancer centre was established by business mogul Thomson Mpinganjira, in memory of his late wife, Barbara Mpingajira, who died of cancer in a South A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blantyre
Blantyre () is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce, and its second largest city, with an enumerated 800,264 inhabitants . It is sometimes referred to as the commercial and industrial capital of Malawi as opposed to the political capital, Lilongwe. It is the capital of the country's Southern Region as well as the Blantyre District. History Blantyre was founded in 1876 through the missionary work of the Church of Scotland. It was named after Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, birthplace of the explorer David Livingstone. The site was chosen by Henry Henderson, who was joined there on 23 October 1876 by Dr T. T. Macklin and others. Dr Macklin took over the leadership of the mission and began the work of building; but it was not until 1878 that the first ordained minister, Rev. Duff MacDonald, joined the mission. The original missionaries, for various reasons, faced local opposition and three of them were recalled. From 1881–1898 the mission was run by David Clement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
