Appeals for establishment of two sub-centers of the Institute in Jalandhar and Amritsar to broad base the fight against cancer
Chandigarh: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for dedicating the Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, New Chandigarh to the nation even as he called for establishment of sub-centers of the Institute in the Majha and Doaba belts to provide affordable quality treatment against cancer to the people of Punjab.
In a statement here, the SAD president said “it gives me immense pleasure that the 300 bedded Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Mohali which came into being after me and former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal visited the Tata Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) which runs the biggest and best cancer hospital in the country in 2012. We persuaded the TMC Board to establish its first facility outside Mumbai in New Chandigarh and even got the project cleared from the union government and got its foundation stone laid in 2013. The SAD government allotted fifty acres of land for the Institute which is part of the Medicity project initiated by it to provide world class treatment to the people of Punjab”.
Asserting that people would now get quality cancer treatment at subsidized costs, Mr Sukhbir Badal said “thousands of patients will benefit with the establishment of the Institute in New Chandigarh”. He also appealed to the Prime Minister to facilitate establishment of two hundred bedded sub-centres of the Institute in Jalandhar and Amritsar to broad base cancer treatment in the State. He also requested the Prime Minister to expedite construction of the PGI satellite centre at Ferozepur.
Mr Badal said the erstwhile SAD government had given top priority to the health sector by investing Rs 10,000 crore in this sector during its tenure. “The satellite centre of the PGIMER, Chandigarh in Sangrur and an Advanced Cancer Institute affiliated to the Baba Farid Health Sciences University at Bathinda was also established during the tenure of the erstwhile SAD government. “So too were AIIMS, Bathinda, PIMS, Jalandhar and the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences. Creation of two more sub-centers for treatment of cancer at Jalandhar and Amritsar will further help in fighting this scourge”, he added. EOM
SAD govt’s major contribution in improving the state’s HEALTHCARE system:
1. AIIMS Bathinda
2. Medicity in New Chandigarh
3.Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, New Chandigarh
4. Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot
5. Advanced Cancer Research Institute, Bathinda
6. Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Jalandhar
7. PGI satellite centre, Sangrur
8. 100-bed cancer hospital attached with Civil Hospital Sangrur
9. 108 Ambulance service
10. Bhagat Puran Singh Sehat Bima Yojna
11. 8 nursing schools
12. Rs 10,000 cr investment in health sector
13. World class hospitals in private sector in Bathinda, Mohali, Ludhiana and other places
14. Renovation/new buildings of Civil Hospitals
15. 750 free diagnostic centres
16. 1933 free medicine shops.
