Largest cancer center in Bali being built in Sanur, set to open in 2020

An aerial view of Bali’s Mandara General Hospital (RSUD Bali Mandara). Photo: rsbm.baliprov.go.id
An aerial view of Bali’s Mandara General Hospital (RSUD Bali Mandara). Photo: rsbm.baliprov.go.id

A new cancer center is set to open in the near future in Bali, aimed at alleviating the burden on the island’s one currently-operating cancer treatment and providing more treatment options to the island’s large number of cancer patients.

The facility, currently under development in Bali’s Mandara General Hospital (RSUD Bali Mandara) in Sanur, is expected to be operational in 2020.

The cancer center was conceptualized to ease the burden on Sanglah General Hospital in Denpasar —  the only state-owned hospital in Bali that has a cancer treatment facility — which officials say is currently overwhelmed with cancer patients.

“At the moment, radiation and chemotherapy are focused at Sanglah. Patients have to queue, even up to one year, for their radiation treatment. Sometimes they could only be treated when they were in their late stages of cancer, or when they already had a small chance of survival. Most of the time, the [radiation therapy] devices are also broken,” said Ketut Suarjaya, head of Bali Provincial Services, on Tuesday as quoted by Kompas

RSUD Bali Mandara President Director Gede Bagus Darmayasa said the cancer treatment center will be the most technologically-advanced in Bali, equipped with new cancer treatment devices approved by the Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency (Bapeten). The building will consist of three floors, with the top floor designated a nuclear medical center with seven observation rooms.

The center will have two sets of cancer treatment facilities with a total capacity of up to 100 patients per day. However, Gede said they’ll only build one of them for the first stage of development set to be completed in 2020.

“In the near future, the cancer center will be able to detect thyroid cancer, which we target to be ready in 2021,” Gede said Tuesday, as quoted by Kompas.

Official data shows that 2,3% of Bali’s approximately 4.2 million residents are suffering from cancer, with the most common cases being cervical, breast, and lung cancer.

Ketut said that all of the IDR200 billion (US$14.15 million) required to develop the cancer center came from Bali’s Regional Expenditure Budget (APBD). The facility will be able to treat all Healthcare and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) patients regardless of their medical plans, in accordance with the Bali government’s regional regulation on cancer treatment.



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