Most of the time, cancer patients in Mumbai have to rush to Tata Hospital or private hospitals for treatment. However, looking at the waiting list in Tata Hospital, patients have no option but to wait for a longer period of time for treatment.
As treatment in private hospitals is unaffordable, the condition of patients worsen with the time. But henceforth cancer patients will get treatment near home. Four doctors from Mumbai have come together to establish the Mumbai Onco Care Center through which cancer patients will be treated at their homes. So far 16 centers have been started in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and 18 centers will be operational in the next few days.
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Dr. Ashish Joshi, Dr. Vashishta Maniyar, Dr. Pritam Kalaskar and Dr. Kshitij Joshi, four oncologists have come together to start this center. The group of doctors also ensured that while providing this facility near the patients' homes, it would be cheaper than private hospitals. That is why this center has been started at 16 locations in 10 cities of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. Seeing the response to this center from cancer patients, now these four doctors along with 15 other oncology doctors have decided to start this center in every corner of the country.
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Accordingly, in the next 18 months, 18 centers will be started in the western states of the country i.e. Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra. For this, Mumbai Onco Care Center recently entered into a cooperation agreement with Tata Capital. Almost 10 million USD has been collected from it. This fund will be used for the growth of this center and to provide more and more affordable healthcare facilities to the patients. So that even ordinary patients can afford cancer treatment, the Director of Mumbai Onco Care Center, Dr. Ashish Joshi said.
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