Modern cancer centres to be set up at Amritsar, Patiala: Badal

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Press Trust of India Faridkot
Last Updated : Sep 22 2013 | 5:05 PM IST
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said the state government would set up two modern cancer treatment centres at Amritsar and Patiala to tackle the growing menace of the disease.
The centres would be equipped with the latest technology so as to provide quality treatment to the people, Badal said at the inauguration of the Single Emission Computed Tomography Centre at Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital here.
Badal also announced that the government had given land at Mullanpur near Chandigarh for a cancer treatment centre on the lines of Mumbai's Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital, and added that he had requested the Prime Minister to expedite the process of setting it up.
The government is planning to send doctors from the state overseas to receive specialised training for cancer treatment.
A "corpus fund" had been constituted to help cancer patients among the weaker sections, he added.
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First Published: Sep 22 2013 | 5:05 PM IST

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