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Himachal CM Sukhwinder Sukhu announces free medicines for cancer patients

These free of cost medicines also include Trastuzumab vaccine used for cancer treatment, which costs about Rs 40 thousand. A breast cancer patient needs 18 such vaccines in a year for treatment. To provide this vaccine, the state government will spend about seven lakh rupees on each patient. These medicines will be made available at the doorsteps of the people in various government hospitals.

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