Assam to soon get world-class cancer research facility

Dr D Nori, an internationally renowned oncologist, as well as professors from AIIMS, IIT Guwahati, Gauhati Medical College Hospital, and other top medical institutions took part in the workshop to create a schedule for carrying out the project.

A series of consultative sessions were planned, according to Siddharth Singh, commissioner and secretary of the Medical Education & Research Department, to properly describe the project design.

Singh further mentioned that the centre would feature a paediatric oncology hospital affiliated for the treatment of cancer in children.

In addition, a child cardiology wing has been planned for the project, according to Singh.

As per a recent media report in TOI, So far there is only one privatelyrun proton centre operating in the country. “Assam has seen a steady rise in the number of cancer patients. Keeping in view the urgent need to provide credible, state-of-the-art cancer care services closer to people’s home in the state, Assam in collaboration with Tata Trusts formulated a distributed cancer care model in which three levels of facilities were planned to be set up in various parts of Assam to improve access to quality cancer care,” Singh added.