A detailed planning for the construction of Mahamana Pt Madan Mohan Malaviya (MPMM) Cancer centre in Varanasi has been carried out.
It is estimated to incur a cost of Rs 650 crores. In Varanasi district the cancer patients would be treated with a new approach known as ‘Patient-centric care’. It will include all the facilities being presently used at apex level for the treatment of patients suffering from various kinds of cancers.
The cancer care at Varanasi would be delivered through a new approach of patient-centric care with mix of services being offered at the apex level and through different medical colleges and district hospitals in the vicinity.
Tata Trust has offered to construct the Hospital building at the MPMM Cancer Centre. Besides, it will also provide equipments to the hospital.
It is pertinent to mention that in a bid to cater the health needs of about 40 lakh people, Cancer registration has already begun in Varanasi district. This would help in identifying the occurrence of different types of cancers in this region. Some six (6) professionals have been trained in cancer registration and they are documenting the pathologically proven cancers. It will help specialists’ doctors to treat cancer with efficacy.
The data collection for the first year should be completed by the end of this year. The report on the types of cancer in this region is likely to be ready by March 2018.
Early indications are endorsing that gall stones and gall bladder cancer are quite common in this region. Now to understand and analyze the prevalent causes Tata Memorial Centre has mooted a consortium of gall bladder cancer with collaborators from Lucknow, Varanasi & Assam (Guwahati, Silchar). The next step would then be to test a preventive strategy since this cancer is believed to be fatal.
Tata Trust plans to handover the Hospital building with all the requisite furniture and other essential medical equipments to MPMM Cancer Centre by December 2018. For the same, a tripartite MoU is being signed between DoAE-TMC, IMS-BHU and Tata Trust.
Remaining construction involving the offices, resident doctors’ hostel, faculty residences, dharmshala, canteen etc. would be done by Tata Memorial Centre under the Department of Atomic Energy.
More so, the cancer hospital of Indian Railways has been taken for redevelopment and Tata Memorial hospital will make it functional by March 2018. This hospital at the railway building will look after leukemia and lymphoma which has no dedicated facility in the region. This group of cancers is immensely curable. The hospital will also focus on children’s cancers.
To bolster the cancer treatment in this region of state, Tata Memorial hospital has already identified over 15 cancer specialists from BHU as well as railway hospital is enhancing manpower to cater the need of cancer treatment here. The manpower is being enhanced for the same. Over 50 nurses are being trained for cancer nursing and technicians to take care of labs.
