Advanced cancer centre opened
Tribune News Service
Bathinda, July 7
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today inaugurated the Advanced Cancer Institute here.
Badal said: “The facilities at the institute are second only to Tata Memorial Care, Mumbai. Now instead of patients travelling to Bikaner for treatment, we will now have patients coming from across the country and even abroad.”
He said the government would soon start a new scheme to provide healthcare diagnostic services to the people at their doorsteps.
The aim was to ensure proper health check-up of the people, he said, adding, initially, the scheme would cover tests of lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and blood pressure. The government would soon finalise the scheme, he said.
The CM stated that for the first time, a health insurance of Rs 50,000 had been started for the people and very soon around 2,000 medical stores would be opened across the state for providing free medicines to chronic patients.
Union Minister for Food Processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal said besides opening advanced cancer treatment centres at Government Medical Colleges in Amritsar, Patiala and Faridkot, the state government had taken another initiative of providing free treatment to the patients suffering from Hepatitis C.
Principal Secretary, Health, Vini Mahajan said more than 32,000 cancer patients had received cash benefits worth more than Rs 401 crore under the Chief Minister’s Cancer Relief Fund.
With PTI inputs
