ABBOTTABAD, March 29: The 54-bed Institute of Nuclear Oncology and Radiotherapy (INOR) has been launched informally which will become fully operational in about two months.

Talking to reporters here on Monday, Amjad Aziz, director of the Institute of Nuclear Oncology and Radiotherapy, said that the hospital which is 13th edition of the hospitals of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, had been built at the cost of Rs324.1 million.

According to him, latest machines and plants required for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients had been installed.

At present, he added, two sections, including radiotherapy & oncology and nuclear medicine will remain operational, where besides the OPD, day-care chemotherapy and investigation facilities would be provided. He said that poor patients would be provided treatment from Zakat Fund.