PM to open nation’s biggest cancer institute on Feb 12

Tribune News Service

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Jhajjar, February 8

Prime Minister Narendra Modi would inaugurate India’s biggest National Cancer Institute (NCI) at Badhsa village here through video-conferencing from Kurukshetra on February 12. Union Health Minister JP Nadda and Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij would be present at the NCI on the occasion.

Agriculture Minister Om Prakash Dhankar said this while interacting with mediapersons after meeting party workers in Samvaad Bhawan here on Friday.

Sources said the NCI was being developed at a cost Rs 2,035 crore. It will have 710 beds, 1,080 hostel rooms for doctors and 800 rooms for attendants of patients.

The Prime Minister will also digitally lay the foundation stone of a medical university at Kutail village in Karnal from Kurukshetra on February 12.

Havinder Kalyan, local MLA and Hafed chairman, said the university would be named after Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay.