Varian lands South African install

Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems of Palo Alto, CA, has installed its RapidArc system at the largest private hospital in South Africa, the Netcare Unitas Hospital in the Pretoria suburb of Centurion.

RapidArc was introduced on the hospital's Varian Clinac iX medical linear accelerator, which delivers image-guided intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT).

The 470-bed Netcare Unitas Hospital is the flagship of the Netcare group's 54 private hospitals across South Africa.

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