Last November Indian Vice President Shiri Venkaiah Naidu had promised to donate a cancer treatment machine to Malawi. The machine is expected to arrive in June, as confirmed by India’s acting High Commissioner, Anil Suli.

In an interview with local newspaper The Nation, Suli said that the machine is for radiotherapy treatment, which shrinks cancerous tissues and it is able to treat about a 100 patients everyday.

Malawian Doctors and Radiologists will be trained on how to use the equipment, which will be at the Kamuzu Central Hospital’s cancer centre. The Kamuzu cancer centre is a newly built facility which is expected to save government about K480 million which is spent abroad for cancer treatment referrals, according to Minister Health, Housing and Population, Atupele Muluzi.