Tata Trusts ties up with states to bring cancer care to smaller towns

Health care is being brought close enough to ensure patients from any part of the country travel no more than 3 hours to avail treatment of the kind available in large metros

Okay, so you're devastated because you've just discovered you've got cancer. After the initial shock, you start collecting your wits and try to figure out how you're going to fight the disease. You start by taking long leave from work, call for family support and move, bag and baggage, to one of the existing Meccas of oncological care in the country -- Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, CMC Vellore, or AIIMS, New Delhi. Had you been from the northeast, or any place far away from these centres, you would have had to spend an additional Rs 4,00,000-5,00,000 on rent, commute, travel