Lives of thousands of cancer patients are at risk following the looting of computers that store vital data for them at the Cancer Diseases Hospital, a heist that has shocked medical personnel.
The specialised hospital is located within the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) premises in Lusaka.
Medical personnel have described the theft as a ‘death sentence’ on the patients and have passionately appealed to the thieves to bring back the equipment, which included data storage computers.
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Update: Good news: most of the equipment has been recovered, but damage may still delay some services for some patients.