The Government of Bolivia, under the auspices of the Ministry of Hydrocarbons and Energy, announced that it had renewed the construction of the Center for Investigation and Development in Nuclear Technology (CIDTN) under the auspices of El Alto, which permanently paralyzed the government.
In addition to the Ministry, which is the first nuclear research center with medical, agricultural and scientific research forms part of the Red of the Centers of Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy, it will start operating from this year onwards with the latest generation of reduction services. de muertes en el país.
As recorded in 2018 by the Bolivian Agency for Nuclear Energy (ABEN), under the auspices of the Ministry of Hydrocarbons and Energy, and the Argentine State Employment Applications Agency (INVAP), the company has contracted a higher investment of up to 160 million dollars have as object to edit three nuclear medicine institutes in Bolivia: El Alto, La Paz and Santa Cruz.
According to the plan, the El Alto centers (with a physical advance of 98%) and Santa Cruz (55%) will start operations in March and September of this year, respectively; while in La Paz (35%) will operate in the first semester of 2022.
Add the ministry that the three centers will meet with diagnostic, radiotherapy and chemotherapy areas, and will be equipped with six linear accelerators, new tomographs, and specialized Bolivian staff.
In addition, it is intensively working on the training of human resources needed for the operation of the Red Center for Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy. Currently there are 30 becarios, of which 10 participate in the capacity and capacity of the teams in El Alto in the field of nuclear medicine and radiotherapy.
All this information was given on February 4 in the World Day Mark Against Cancer brand, promoted by the World Health Organization (OMS), with the aim of increasing awareness and mobilizing society to advance in prevention and control of this enfermedad. According to data from the National Register of Cancer, in Bolivia, each year more than 10,000 women are diagnosed and men with this pathology and, according to estimates of the World Health Organization, each day between 4 and 5 women per year of cancer uterine.