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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Cancer patients, who currently receive treatment at the King Hussein Cancer Centre (KHCC), will continue their treatment at the clinic and will not be relocated to other public medical facilities, the government spokesman said Monday.

The assurance follows a recent government decision that a medical committee should decide the place of treatment of newly-diagnosed cancer patients, who are above 60-year-old and originally didn't have medical insurance but covered in a recent government-sponsored free insurance.

In a press conference held Monday evening, Minister of State for Media Affairs and the government spokesman, Mohammad Al-Momani, said the medical committee will decide where these patients will be treated whether at public or army-run hospitals or university hospitals or at the King Hussein Cancer Center itself.

He assured that cancer patients who started treatment at the KHCC will continue to be treated there and they won't be transferred anywhere else. The minister said some people disseminated false and inaccurate information about this issue. He urged the media and users of social networking platforms to take correct information from correct sources.

The non-insured cancer patients, will be treated like those who have insurance, the minister said, indicting that the medical committee will deicide the suitable hospital for their treatment.

Earlier, the cabinet decided to provide JD17 million to the Development and Employment Fund for preparing a special program for a collective self-employment of military retirees in cooperation the Economic and Social Association of Retired Servicemen and Veterans (ESARSV).

The Jordan Armed Forces (JAF) will assist in training and rehabilitating these retirees to start the self-employment projects, which constitute an important and practical initiative to reduce unemployment, Al-Momani stressed.