Regional cancer centre to come up at IGIMS

Efforts are on to set up a state-of-the-art regional cancer centre at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) here, Bihar&aposs Minister for Health N K Yadav told the state assembly.

Replying to a short-notice question of Vinod Narain Jha (BJP) and subsequent supplementaries from RJD&aposs Shakeel Ahmed Khan, Ramchandra Purve and Ramdas Rai, Yadav said the central government had approved a proposal for setting up a regional cancer centre at the IGIMS, equipped with modern facilities.

He said the government was also making efforts to add bone marrow transplant facilities at the centre.

The minister said around one lakh people from the state were receiving medicare from the cancer units at the IGIMS, Patna Medical College and Hospital, and Mahavir Cancer Institute here, even as he admitted that patients were going to Delhi and Mumbai for treatment at advance stages of the disease.link