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Visits Homi Bhabha cancer hospital construction site in New Chandigarh, reviews progress, says Rs 663-cr 300-bed state-of-the-art facility to cater northern region as tertiary care centre
Mohali, October 14 2021
To expedite the construction work, Deputy Commissioner Isha Kalia, on Thursday, visited the Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Medicity at New Chandigarh (Mohali). On this occasion, Ms, Kalia, while reviewing the progress, was assured that the upcoming ultra-modern cancer tertiary care facility will be made operational by this year.
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She also directed all the line departments to extend all requisite assistance for the early opening of this prestigious project. On her visit to the construction site, she was apprised that the much-awaited Centre is in the advanced stage of completion.
Reviewing the progress of the ambitious healthcare project, the Deputy Commissioner said the 300-bed state-of-the-art hospital will act as a tertiary care centre for the entire northern region, comprising Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
“The hospital will start radiotherapy, radiology, CT scan, MRI, ultrasound, x-ray, mammography, medical oncology, chemotherapy, day-care ward, pathology and lab facilities, minor OT, besides initiating OPD services such as surgical oncology, medical oncology, radiation oncology, palliative care preventive oncology,” she said, adding that these facilities will be available for public soon.
While taking stock of the works being executed at the hospital site, the Deputy Commissioner said the state government is fully committed to provide the best possible healthcare facilities to its citizens and the Chief Minister has desired to make this medical facility available to the people at the earliest.
Ms. Isha Kalia said the prestigious project, a unit of Tata Memorial Centre Mumbai, under the Department of Atomic Energy, is being set up with a sanctioned cost of Rs 663.74-crore in the built up area of 40,545 square meters for which 50 acres of land has been provided free of cost by the Punjab Government.
The cancer care center will be equipped with high-end diagnostic and treatment facilities such as two linear accelerator, brachytherapy, PECT CT, bone marrow transplant (BMT), CT simulator, MR simulator, interventional radiology and surgical facilities, besides day-care centre, ICU and recovery units. The hospital will be fully IT-based with electronic medical records facility, informed she, while adding that it will also be interlinked with all the Tata Memorial Centres located across the country. This will help the patients of this region to get online super-specialty consultation for managing various types of cancer ailments under the disease management groups (DMGs), she divulged.
On completion, the project will not only make healthcare facilities accessible to the region but will also help in promoting medical tourism as the state government was developing Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Mohali as hubs for medical tourism through various initiatives. Notably, the Medicity, which comprises sites for multi-specialty and super-specialty hospitals, medical research institutes and housing facilities for doctors and other staff, in New Chandigarh, was spread over 250 acres in the immediate vicinity of Chandigarh PGIMER.
Among others who were present during the visit included Additional Deputy Commissioner (D) Dr. Himanshu Aggarwal, Officer in Charge Punjab Project Tata Memorial Centre Mumbai Dr. Ashish Gulia, Assistant Medical Superintendent Tata Memorial Centre Punjab Dr. Nitin Marathe, Civil Engineer Tata Memorial Centre Punjab Mr. Ramgiri Puri.
