The State Government is taking steps to improve infrastructures for cancer care by extending the facilities, including screening and follow-up treatment in all districts, said Health Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak here on Thursday.
“A linear Accelerator, a modern device used to treat cancer, was installed at the Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Centre at Cuttack recently. Steps are afoot to introduce such treatment facilities, including chemotherapy in 10 District Headquarters Hospital (DHHs) initially. The facilities will be extended to other districts subsequently,” Nayak said while addressing a programme on Cancer Survivors held at the SOA University here to mark the World Cancer Day.
Doctors are being trained in Delhi and Mumbai and would be posted in the districts, he added.
Presided over the meeting, IMS and Sum Hospital Director Prof DK Roy said the hospital would be procuring a linear Accelerator soon besides PET scan machine.
Senior journalists Dilip Satpathy and Chandrabhanu Patnaik, both of whom had a brush with cancer, attended the event.