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Maharashtra to provide Pre-Cancer Detection Centre at every state-run hospital: Deepak Sawant

MLA Deepak Sawant announced in the assembly that the government will provide Chemotherapy facility in all the state-run hospitals

Maharashtra to provide Pre-Cancer Detection Centre at every state-run hospital: Deepak Sawant
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MLA Dr. Deepak Sawant on Monday announced that every government hospital in the state will start a pre-cancer detection centre. He said that the hospital will also provide Chemotherapy facility.

In this matter, Shiv Sena leader Ulhas Patil informed that under the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Swasthaya Yojana – 229 hospitals, including government and private – are treating different types of cancer. Among these hospitals, 68,300 people are given Chemotherapy treatment and 38,384 patients have been treated with surgery. 

Patil informed that there are a  huge number of cancer patients from Shiroli Taluka and Cancer Registry Centres will be started, in the coming two months, through Tata Cancer Institute in Kolhapur District. 

Dr. Sawant further said that the Pre-Cancer Detection Centre has been started in Malvani and the Chemotherapy facility will be available in the coming month. Under the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Jiroggi Yojana, Cancer patients have recently received ‘Cycle benefits’.

According to a research conducted in the United States, it has come out that the cases of breast cancer are more in cities like Mumbai and Pune. To this, Sawant said that the government will take measures for the same based on the data collected through surveys for cancer patients.

Focusing again on the results of surveys, the government said that it will increase the facilities in the areas accordingly. For now, the state government is treating cancer patients at Tata Tuckodji Hospital, National Cancer Institute, along with Tata Cancer Institutes.

Two hospitals will be constructed at Govandi to accommodate the cancer patients being treated at Tata Cancer Hospitals.

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