{"entity":{"id":"chu-jra-antananarivo","kind":"institution","name":"Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Joseph Ravoahangy Andrianavalona (CHU JRA)","aka":["CHU JRA","CHU-HJRA","HJRA","Joseph Ravoahangy Andrianavalona University Hospital"],"tldr":"A public university hospital in Antananarivo with a cancer service and a cobalt radiotherapy centre that opened in 2021. About twelve thousand people with cancer had been treated at the radiotherapy centre by late 2024.","summary":"CHU Joseph Ravoahangy Andrianavalona is a public university hospital in Antananarivo. Its cobalt radiotherapy centre at Befelatanana, set up with cobalt-60 machines donated by the Republic of India, had treated twelve thousand people with cancer between February 2021 and the minister's visit of 31 October 2024, with fifteen to twenty patients a day treated with curative or palliative intent; India agreed preventive maintenance three times a year until 2025. IAEA DIRAC, with the entry last updated in 2022, lists one cobalt-60 unit and brachytherapy at CHU-HJRA and no CT scanner. The coordinates are DIRAC's.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"L'Express de Madagascar: cobalt therapy for twelve thousand patients (November 2024)","url":"https://www.lexpress.mg/2024/11/sante-publique-la-cobaltotherapie-au.html"},{"label":"IAEA DIRAC: radiotherapy equipment by centre (read 11 November 2026)","url":"https://dirac.iaea.org/Data/CountriesLight"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["madagascar-ministry-of-public-health"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Antananarivo","country":"MG","lat":-18.879,"lng":47.508,"institutionType":"hospital","programs":["Cobalt-60 radiotherapy centre at Befelatanana (from February 2021)","Brachytherapy","Medical oncology"]},"route":"/institutions/chu-jra-antananarivo/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"madagascar-ministry-of-public-health","kind":"institution","name":"Ministère de la Santé Publique, Madagascar","route":"/institutions/madagascar-ministry-of-public-health/"}]}}