CS: Make cancer facility functional

Chandigarh, June 16 To provide better healthcare facilities to cancer patients in the state, Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan today directed the Medical Education Department to make the State Cancer Institute in Amritsar functional within the current fiscal. Reviewing the progress...

Tribune News Service

Updated At : 11:58 AM Jun 17, 2021 IST

Chandigarh, June 16

To provide better healthcare facilities to cancer patients in the state, Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan today directed the Medical Education Department to make the State Cancer Institute in Amritsar functional within the current fiscal.

Reviewing the progress of the cancer institute’s ongoing civil and other allied works here, she said the Rs 120-crore project would have the state-of-the-art 150-bed complex that would provide world-class treatment facilities to cancer patients.

Fixing the timelines for the ongoing civil works being done by the PHSC, Mahajan said these should be completed by October and installation of equipment should be completed immediately after that. During the meeting, the Chief Secretary also reviewed the progress of Tertiary Cancer Care Centre in Fazilka and asked to complete the ongoing civil works of the project by March 2022. — TNS

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