Maj Gen Rawat had sent his complaint to the joint director of ED who had reportedly forwarded it to the Bhopal unit for further investigations. Complaint alleges that a section of the trust authorities siphoned funds on account of medicine purchases by setting up ‘shell companies. The hospital requires medicines worth Rs 40-Rs 50 crore annually.
The facility will be upgraded at an estimated cost of Rs 89 crore. Permission has been issued for the recruitment of medical and paramedical staff to super-specialty hospitals, and the facility will start functioning soon. Namma Clinics will be inaugurated in November, he added.
So far 1,793 and 2207 patients have got cancer treatment under this scheme in HBCH and MPMMCC respectively. Most patients have been provided chemotherapy during treatment while some have also undergone complex surgeries.
Director of Tata Memorial Centre Mumbai Dr Rajendra Badwi and Special Secretary Public Health Dr Ajit Kumar Mohanty signed the MoU.
Paediatric oncology has made considerable strides in the last three decades, the number of experts treating childhood cancers has remained skewed.
The prime minister said over 1.50 lakh health and wellness centres are being set up in the country, of which 1.25 lakh have already started functioning.
Nearly all the beds at the cancer hospital were occupied before the floods worsened more than a week ago, but they have had to send patients home or to safer locations and now there are just 85 patients in its wards, according to Dharshana.
Speaking at the 14th foundation day celebrations of the state-run institute held at its auditorium, he said the hospital would come up under the Public Private Partnership model.
Around 80% of cancer patients come to the institute in the third or fourth stage which affects the success rate of treatment.
Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday inaugurated the new radiation oncology block at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital’s (GMCH) Cancer Hospital eqipped with Tomotherapy facility.
The MCS is also going to develop a hospice, a special hospital for people who are dying, just a few miles away from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences-Patna (AIIMS-P). It will deal with the practical, emotional and medical needs of patients.
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