# Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital

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## TL;DR

The government's tertiary hospital in Malé, home since 2023 to the National Cancer Centre of Maldives, which offers cancer screening, chemotherapy, cancer surgery and palliative care.

## Summary

Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital is the government's tertiary hospital in Malé, with about 300 beds, opened under that name on 15 April 1995 with help from the Government of India, and its services are covered by the national social health insurance, Aasandha, according to its own site. Its National Cancer Centre began in January 2018 as a sub-unit of general surgery with one cancer surgeon, added chemotherapy, an oncology department and an in-house medical oncologist, and became the National Cancer Centre of Maldives with a dedicated oncology ward in 2023. It offers cancer screening, diagnostic evaluation, day-care chemotherapy, oncological surgery, management of oncological emergencies, palliative and end-of-life care, and weekly multidisciplinary team meetings. IAEA DIRAC lists no radiotherapy centre in the Maldives. Coordinates are Nominatim's.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: IGMH; National Cancer Centre of Maldives; National Cancer Centre, IGMH
- City: Malé, MV
- Type: hospital
- Website: https://www.igmh.gov.mv/en

## Sources

- IGMH: National Cancer Centre: https://www.igmh.gov.mv/en/centres/national-cancer-centre
- IGMH: about us: https://www.igmh.gov.mv/en/about-us

## Connected records

- institutions: [Cancer Society of Maldives](https://onco.cc/institutions/cancer-society-of-maldives/)

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