Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Punjab on August 24 and inaugurate Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Mohali district.
Chandigarh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Punjab on August 24 and inaugurate Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Mohali district. Tight security arrangements have been made by the Punjab Police for the high-profile
Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre is a 300-bed facility and equipped with state-of-the-art facilities such as MRI, CT, mammography, digital radiography and brachytherapy to treat all types of cancers using every available treatment modalities like surgery and medical oncology — chemotherapy, immunotherapy and bone marrow transplant.
The hospital has been built at a cost of over Rs 660 crore by Tata Memorial Centre. The facility has a day care facility for administration of chemotherapy and minor OT for biopsy and minor surgeries. The hospital will function as a “hub” of cancer care and treatment in the region, with a 100-bed hospital in Sangrur functioning as its “spoke”.
visit to Mullanpur in Mohali, officials said on Tuesday.
It will act as a territory care centre to patients not only from Punjab but from Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan as well.