This is approximately 1,114 kilometres (692 mi), by road, north-west of Dar es Salaam, the financial capital and largest city in the country.

[3] BMC is a tertiary referral, research, teaching center and cancer treatment hospital affiliated with the Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences.

BMC's inpatient bed capacity is 950, spanning a wide range of medical and surgical specialties.

[1] In Tanzania, an estimated 35,000 new cases of cancer were diagnosed in 2014, of whom about 21,000 (60 percent) died that same year.

When completed the Bugando Cancer Centre, will have capacity to attend to 120 patients on a daily basis.