Maha: 49 medical colleges to adopt 50 villages each to raise awareness about breast cancer
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government have decided to set up a cancer outpatient department in every medical college of the state with an aim to ensure the proper diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer among women from rural areas.
Each medical college would be adopting 50 villages so that the new initiative would reach the rural women of the area. The aim of the programme is to spread awareness about breast cancer and to reduce its diagnosis.
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The government has selected 49 medical colleges to participate in the initiative. The special cancer outpatient department would conduct a breast cancer screening once a day every week.
Each medical college is required to adopt 50 villages or screen around 20,000 women so that the initiative could reach every woman in the village. The aim is to create awareness about early detection of breast cancer and to ensure prompt treatment. Expert doctors associated with the medical colleges would be providing treatment to the women in the villages, revealed the information given by the Minister of Medical Education, Girish Mahajan.
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