Giving a major uplift to the cancer treatment facilities in Punjab, the Advanced Cancer Diagnostic Treatment and Research Centre at Bathinda has started surgical services in the hospital for cancer patients.
“The hospital has now been successful in operationalizing and making fully functional one operation theatre and intensive care unit (ICU) in a short span of time,” said the state Health and Family Welfare Minister Surjit Kumar Jyani.
He said that the Cancer Hospital was earlier providing OPD services and some other basic services for treatment of the cancer patients.
“Besides OT and ICU, hospital’s Pathology Department is providing Hematology, Histopathology, Cytopathology services, imaging studies by Radiology department with facilities like Ultrasonography, CT and MRI. Radiation therapy department was already operational and providing services of tele-cobalt therapy and brachy-therapy, whereas the dental and oral health sciences are also functional,” he said.
Health Minister informed that the hospital has last week conducted first cancer treatment surgery on a female patient that remained successful and the patient is recovering fast. Jyani said that more services are being augmented to further strengthen the cancer treatment facilities in Bathinda’s ACDTRC.
Reiterating Punjab Government's commitment for providing better prevention and treatment facilities for cancer patients, he listed out State Government’s initiatives including Rs 1.5 lakh relief to cancer patients under the Chief Minister Punjab Cancer Relief Fund, providing 95 types of drugs for cancer treatment at subsidized rates, among other things.