UP: CM Yogi to launch 1250-bed OPD service at Super Specialty Cancer Institute

The institute will follow the DMG format. Under this, specialists of all disciplines sit in a room along with the patient who sits just opposite them as is witnessed in high profile interviews. The experts will listen to the medical issues of the patient and finalize the treatment line.

The Chief Minister wants the facility to become functional at the earliest to save scores of poor people in the state from selling their assets to afford cancer treatment in big cities.

The facility will not only benefit people in Uttar Pradesh but also those from Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.

One in three patients, reporting at the Indian Council of Medical Research's national cancer registry, is from these three states.

The numbers suggest that Uttar Pradesh desperately needed a state-of-the-art facility with all services under one roof.

As per a 2017 report on cancer, the state was among the worst-affected ones. In 2016, Uttar Pradesh saw 6.7 lakh of the 39 lakh cancer cases reported in the country.

Uttar Pradesh stood prominently among the states accounting for 44 percent of India's cancer burden. The others were north-eastern states, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Haryana, Assam, Gujarat, Kerala, Karnataka, and Madhya Pradesh.

Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav, who had initiated the entire project during his regime, took to Twitter to slam the Yogi Adityanath government. "It seems that the BJP government has been formed only to inaugurate projects started by us," he tweeted.

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