GO made great strides this year towards launching the first public oncology unit in Belize which is on target to open in 2019 as an outpatient cancer treatment facility within the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH).
We convened a multidisciplinary team–from Stanford, UCSF, Duke, and Boston Children’s Hospital–to collaborate with colleagues at KHMH and Belizean oncologist Dr. Ramon Yacab on carrying out this endeavor. Nurses will begin chemotherapy-administration training onsite in January 2019.
A unique aspect of this cancer-care unit will be GO’s Directly Observed Care program–an innovative patient navigation model for accompanying patients through their care journey and removing barriers to accessing care.
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