Dow’s Gamma Knife centre treated 2,500 patients since 2021
KARACHI: The Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Centre (GKRC) of Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) has treated around 2,500 patients with brain tumours, with an average yearly increasing rate of 96% till 2024, since it became operational in 2021, this emerged recently. Dedicated neurosurgeons, radiation oncologists and other specialists at the centre—first facility of its kind in the public sector health settings in the country for patients with tumours, blood vessel malformations and nerve disorders reporting from across the country—are aspiring additional non-invasive treatment platform to reach more patients. Dow-GKRC considered both by relevant experts and benefitted-patients a world-class treatment facility on an affordable cost had handled 176 patients in the last four months of 2021. “The number of treated patients increased to 651 in 2022; 725 in 2023; and 775 in 2024, while about 200 patients have been treated so far this year (2025) at the centre,” shared an official concern...