Assam government will soon set up a three-level cancer care grid in the state and a cancer research centre for the South Asian region with the support of Tata Trusts, state health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Thursday.
This “first-of-the-kind” three-level cancer care grid which would draw an investment of about Rs 1,400 crore. The investment is proposed to be shared between the state government and Tata Trusts.
In level 1 - a state-level cancer care institute in Guwahati would have advanced tertiary care facilities, in level 2 medical colleges in the state would have facilities for chemotherapy, radiation and surgical oncology, and in level 3 district hospitals would have day-care, chemotherapy and radiation facilities.
Read more of this in a report by Samudra Gupta Kashyap published in The Indian Express....
