NATIONAL
CANCER INSTITUTE TO COME UP AT HARYANA
The Centre cleared a proposal for
setting up of National Cancer Institute at the Jhajjar campus of All India
Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, at a cost of Rs 2035 crore
The cancer institute will be located in Badhsa
village in Jhajjar of Haryana, near Delhi and will be completed in a period of
45 months.
Approving the Health Ministry's proposal on Thursday, the Union Cabinet cleared
a long-pending demand of Haryana government.
The step is being considered as a landmark in the area of cancer research in
the country and shall lessen the deficit of tertiary cancer care in the
Northern region.
Cancer is emerging as a major public health concern in India, where 11 lakh new
cases are diagnosed every year and the mortality rate is 5.5 lakh per year.
Cancer treatment facilities in India are lagging behind when compared to WHO standards
that require a radiotherapy machine per million populations.
India at present has 0.41 machines per million populations and the setting up
of this institute will herald a new chapter in the initiative against cancer.
The Institute will have 710 beds for different facilities like surgical
oncology, radiation oncology, medical oncology, anaesthesia and palliative care
and nuclear medicine. It will also have the first of its kind Tissue Repository
in India.
HSCC (India) Ltd, a public sector enterprise under the administrative control
of the Health & Family Welfare Ministry has been appointed as Project
Consultant for it by AIIMS Delhi.
The National Cancer Institute will operate on the lines of NCI in USA and DKFZ
in Germany as a nodal center for indigenous research, promotive, preventive and
curative aspects of care and human resource development.
The institute aims to plan, conduct and coordinate research on cancers which
are more specific to India; like tobacco related cancers, cancer of the uterine
cervix, gall bladder cancer and liver cancers.
The Health Ministry note said the focus will be on understanding, analyzing
causes and genesis of various cancers.
The Institute will further translate the knowledge gained to develop feasible
strategies to improve cancer care services by improvement in detection,
diagnosis, treatment and quality of life of patients.
The proposed institute will broadly have clinical division, research divisions,
and disease management groups (DMGs). These DMGs will go in to the details of
all issues pertaining to management of various cancers, site wise, besides
other facilities.
The project consultant will be responsible for concept, detailed design &
engineering, contracting, project management and medical equipment procurement,
installations and the commissioning of the Institute.
Meanwhile, Congress MP from Rohtak Deepinder Singh Hooda has thanked Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and Ministers of the Union Cabinet for approving the
mega project.
Hooda said that National Cancer Institute at the Jhajjar campus of AIIMS would
lessen the deficit of tertiary cancer care in the country.
"It will also have the first of its kind Tissue Repository in India,"
he said in a release in Chandigarh on Thursday.
Hooda described the institute as a gift to the poor and needy cancer patients
of not only Haryana but the entire country.
He said that the approval has met the long-pending demand of the people of
Haryana.
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