KILIMANJARO, June 25 -- PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan has said expanding cancer treatment services closer to the public will improve access to care and reduce the burden on patients, as she directed researchers to investigate the increasing number of children diagnosed with cancer and heart diseases.

She made the remarks yesterday while inaugurating a state-of-the-art radiotherapy unit at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) in Moshi, Kilimanjaro Region.

The President said the facility forms part of the governments efforts to decentralise specialised cancer treatment services and bring them closer to the people. “We had one centre at Ocean Road in Dar es Salaam.

Later the services were extended to Bugando in Mwanza and now...