The Meherbai Tata Memorial Hospital (MTMH), a 72-bed trust-managed cancer hospital located here, is set to become the first comprehensive cancer-care centre of the state with Tata Trusts deciding to support the hospital in a massive round of upgradation, which was inaugurated on Saturday by Tata Trusts chairman Ratan Tata.
As part of the upgradation the hospital will be expanded to a 130-bed facility, a new out patient department will replace the existing one while a range of advanced cancer detection and treatment equipments will also be installed.
According to available data, on an average, 34000 cancer cases are reported from Jharkhand annually with a growth rate of 13 per cent every year.
Read more of this in a report published in The Telegraphs....
