Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a hub of the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) at Bhubaneswar to provide advanced and affordable care to the cancer patients.
The main Tata Memorial Hospital is situated in Mumbai. It is a grant-in-aid institution under Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India and a specialist cancer treatment and research centre, closely associated with the advanced centre for treatment, research and education in cancer.
The Chief Minister on Thursday wrote the Prime Minister seeking his intervention to set up a hub at Bhubaneswar.
“Odisha has been receiving a good number of patients requiring various types of medical interventions, from our neighbouring States. Apart from a branch of AIIMS and hospitals of the State Government, we now have good participation of private hospitals in and around Bhubaneswar. However, there is need for an advanced cancer hospital and research centre in the public sector is immensely felt to provide affordable care to the cancer patients,” said Patnaik in the letter,” said Patnaik.