The North Delhi Municipal Corporation (North MCD) has inaugurated a dedicated Cancer Care Centre at Hindu Rao hospital on Saturday. The centre will function thrice a week — Wednesday, Thursday and Friday — for two hours from 3:00pm to 4:00 pm.
The new cancer care centre was thrown open to the public by the North Delhi Mayor Avtar Singh. The officials added that the centre will be run by the medical officers/specialist from the concerned department such as obstetrics Gynae, Surgery, dermatology; Ophthalmology will be running the services in the Centre.
The inaugural event also witnessed senior officials of the civic authority such as deputy Mayor Yogesh Verma, Standing Committee (SC) Chairman, Jai Prakash, Leader of House, Tilak Raj Kataria, Deputy Chairman SC, Vipin Malhotra and others.
"Prevention of cancer has been one of the foremost of priorities of the hospital wherein all the departments are offering early detection and referral services to the patients. Thus, a dedicate centre has been created to save time in diagnosis treatment of the patients suffering from this deadly disease," said the Mayor.
The Cancer Centre which will run thrice a week will diagnose the patients with cancer symptoms. After the patient will be diagnosed with positive results will be treated in the hospital with available facilities or will be referred to specialised centers for further care, said the officials.
Hindu Rao Hospital is a 980 bedded multi-specialty hospital under North Delhi Municipal Corporation which caters the poor and vulnerable population not only from Delhi, but also neighboring States.