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THE KORLE BU Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana—the third largest hospital in Africa—houses two radiation machines for treating cancer patients. Both are relatively new, purchased by Ghana’s Ministry of Health in the last few years. Both produce powerful X-rays that can penetrate your skin to kill tumor cells in your body. People from all over Ghana, even outside the country, come to the hospital to use the machines for cancer therapy.

“We have patients from Nigeria, Togo, and the Ivory Coast coming to us for treatment,” says Joel Yarney, an oncologist at the hospital.

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