Jammu, December 20, (Scoop News)- Minister for Medical Education, Youth Services & Sports, Taj Mohi ud Din today visited the Super Specialty Hospital, Jammu and inspected the site of the proposed Tertiary Cancer Centre being set up there.
The Centre is one among the two Tertiary Cancer Centres being set up under the National Cancer Control Programme in J&K. One such centre would be set up at SKIMS, Srinagar while another would be set up at Super Specialty Hospital Jammu.
The Minister went round the Hospital and took stock of the availability of space and other logistics for the setting up of the Cancer Centre. He also reviewed the feasibility of setting up of units like Day Care, PET Scan, bunkers for radiation, emergency etc for the centre.
To be set up at a cost of Rs. 45 crore, the centre would have facilities of PET Scan and Linear Accelerator which are used in cancer screening. At present, there is no PET Scan and Linear Accelerator facility available in the State and the patients have to go to outside the State for the same.
It may be recalled here that the demand for setting up Tertiary Cancer Centres in Jammu and Kashmir was projected by Taj Mohi-ud-Din soon after taking over as Minister for Medical Education early this year. Accordingly, the Union Health Ministry suggested preparing a proposal and submitting the same for funding under National Cancer Control Programme.
Interacting with the faculty members there, the Minister hoped that the two Tertiary Cancer Centres would go a long way in meeting the requirement of cancer-related treatments within the State and would provide respite to the patients from paying so heavily for such treatments in the institutions and centres outside the Jammu and Kashmir.
Secretary, Health & Medical Education Department, Gazzanfar Hussain, Principal, Government Medical College, Jammu, Dr. Shashi Gupta, faculty members and senior officers accompanied the Minister during the inspection.
It is worthwhile to mention here that the spread of cancer has in J&K has been quite fast in recent years.
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