# Ministry of Health, Eswatini

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## TL;DR

Eswatini's health ministry. It re-established the national cancer registry in 2015, screens for cervical and breast cancer at primary care clinics, and in 2017 referred most people needing cancer treatment to South Africa.

## Summary

The IAEA's summary of its imPACT review of Eswatini (then Swaziland), published in October 2017, says the country set up a cancer registry in 2015 and began cervical and breast cancer screening at 80 primary care clinics; that only minor cancer surgery was done at three public hospitals and basic chemotherapy for a few cancers at Mbabane Government Hospital; and that with no radiotherapy, the government referred most cancer patients to South Africa. The health minister said the ministry would develop a national cancer control plan and planned a cancer control unit. The African Cancer Registry Network's page says the ministry re-established the registry in August 2015. The government's website (gov.sz) did not answer in November 2026. The coordinates are an approximate city point for Mbabane.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: Ministry of Health, Swaziland; MoH Eswatini
- City: Mbabane, SZ
- Type: government

## Sources

- IAEA: imPACT review, Eswatini (August 2017, PDF): https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/documents/review-missions/eswatini_-_2017_impact_review.pdf
- African Cancer Registry Network: Eswatini National Cancer Registry: https://afcrn.org/index.php/membership/membership-list/146-eswatinincr

## Connected records

- cancers: [Breast cancer (all types)](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-cancer/), [Cervical cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/)
- institutions: [Eswatini National Cancer Registry](https://onco.cc/institutions/eswatini-national-cancer-registry/), [International Atomic Energy Agency: Rays of Hope](https://onco.cc/institutions/iaea/), [Mbabane Government Hospital](https://onco.cc/institutions/mbabane-government-hospital/)

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