The land for the proposed cancer hospital at Barang will be handed over to the Tata Trust July end. This was decided in a meeting of the managing committee of the Odisha Cancer Care Foundation, presided over Health and Family Welfare Secretary Promod Kumar Meherda on Tuesday here.
It was revealed in the meeting that the construction work for a road to the site of the hospital would also start within a month.
Notably, for the cancer research centre, the State Government has signed an MoU with the Tata Trust and CM Naveen Patnaik has laid the foundation stone for the project.
According to information, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other cancer detection facilities would be improved in VIMSAR, MKCG and hospitals in Koraput and Keonjhar.
Also special block for radiotherapy and master plan for expansion of the Acharya Harihar Cancer Research Centre, Cuttack, would be soon made ready. Among others, Health Joint Secretary Guhja Punam Tapas Kumar, Acharya Harihar Cancer Research Centre Director Lalatendu Sarangi, cancer specialist Dinesh Pendrakar, besides the member of Tata Trust, were present.