Cancer care centres in Assam to boost healthcare facilities

Assam: The health sector in the state of Assam is on the up as various developmental projects to improve healthcare have been ushered in the state.

In yet another step towards development, BJP National President Amit Shah, along with industrialist Ratan Tata, recently laid the foundation stone of 19 cancer speciality centres across the state, which will boost the potential to drastically improve cancer care in the state and the northeast region as a whole.

Technological advances in the healthcare sector have certainly curtailed down other infection-related diseases in India's northeast region, but the burden of cancer is quite alarming in the region. The northeastern states have the highest incidence of cancer in the country due to various reasons including food habits and other related issues.

However, the present government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is making vigorous efforts to uplift the healthcare sector of the region, in an endeavour to make northeast a medical tourism hub for the region. Keeping in mind the quality health services and to transform the scenario of cancer care in the state of Assam as well as in the region, BJP National President Amit Shah, along with industrialist Ratan Tata, in presence of chief ministers of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh recently laid the foundation stone of 19 cancer care centres all across the state in a special function held in Guwahati. The cancer centres would boost the potential to drastically improve cancer treatment in the state and the region as a whole. Thousands of people from all walks of life gathered to be a part of the momentous ceremony.