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Acharya with officials from Tata Trust and Nagaland health department on Thursday in Kohima.[/caption]
Dimapur, April 12 (EMN): The government of Nagaland is pushing for establishment of a Cancer Care Centre in the state – by way of inviting the corporate giant Tata Trust to set up the facility in Nagaland.
The Raj Bhavan, on Thursday, issued a press release informing about ‘a purposeful meeting for development of Cancer Care Centre in Nagaland by Tata Trust’ being held at Raj Bhavan Kohima ‘at the initiation of the governor’. Representatives from the Tata trust and Nagaland government officials led the chief secretary and officials from the department of Health and Family Welfare attended said meeting.
“Principal Secretary to governor, Piyush Goyal, said the governor had initiated the meeting with the objective to hold interaction with the officials of the H & FW department and representatives from Tata Trust to work out a modality to take the idea forward.
“Lakshman Sethuraman from Tata Trust explained that the idea is to structure the system in such a way that the treatment of cancer comes to the doorstep of the patients so that people don’t go out of their states for cancer treatments and their livelihood is not disturbed. He further explained that 70%-90% of cancer care can be handled by doctors and nurses after training while the super specialist is required for the treatment planning and complicated surgeries,” the statement informed.
According to Sethuraman, the project was not about building new cancer hospitals but addressing the issue of cancer care in the entire length and breadth of Nagaland in partnership with the department of Health and Family Welfare of Nagaland.
The Raj Bhavan press release informed that Acharya had earlier written a letter to the Ratan Tata inviting the latter to establish an ‘Advance Cancer Care programme’ in Nagaland. Acharya had highlighted that cancer cases in Nagaland have been increasing every year – while amking a case for the Trust to establish a care-centre In the Nagaland.
“The governor also discussed the issue along with other public welfare issues with the chief minister of Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio during their meeting at Raj Bhavan the same evening. The chief minister also expressed his happiness at the initiative,” it informed.