Jhajjar: Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare JP Nadda said the Centre would set up 20 state cancer institutes to provide world-class medical facility to patients. Besides, the Centre would allocate cancer centres region-wise.
Nadda was addressing a gathering after performing ‘bhoomi pujan’ of National Cancer Institute here today. He said the NDA government was committed to combat cancer.
“National Cancer Institute to be developed over 300 acres at Badhsa village will cost Rs 2,035 crore. It will have 710 beds for various facilities such as surgical oncology, radiation oncology, medical oncology, anesthesia and palliative care, nuclear medicine etc.,” said the minister
He said 1,080 hostel rooms for doctors and 800 rooms for attendants of cancer patients would also be constructed. The construction will be completed in 27 months.
“Six AIIMS were opened across the nation during the regime of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Ten more AIIMS will be set up in the country during the Modi regime and Haryana is likely to get one of them,” he said.
Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said as per guidelines of the World Health Orgnisation (WHO), Haryana was lagging behind other states in providing healthcare facility to patients, so the government had planned to open more hospitals in the state.
Khattar urged Nadda to open AIIMS at Manethi village in Rewari district.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had laid the foundation stone of the institute on January 3, 2014.
Centre would open 20 state cancer institutes: Nadda
