The 200-bed Institute of Rotary Cancer Hospital (IRCH) in AIIMS will shift to the institute's outreach campus in Jhajjar in the next few years. The hospital will be renamed National Cancer Research Institute and will come up in an area of 50 acres on the 300-acre campus.
To be established at a cost of Rs. 2,035 crore, the Institute will come up on the campus of All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS Cancer Institute.
The project is estimated to be completed in 45 months, and will help reduce the deficit of tertiary cancer care in the Northern region
Cancer is emerging as a major public health concern in India, where 11 lakh new cases are diagnosed every year and the mortality rate is 5.5 lakh per year.
Cancer treatment facilities in India are lagging behind when compared to WHO standards that requires a radiotherapy machine per million population. India at present has 0.41 machines per million population and the setting up of this institute will herald a new chapter in the initiative against cancer.
The Institute will have 710 beds for different facilities like surgical oncology, radiation oncology, medical oncology, anaesthesia and palliative care and nuclear medicine. It will also have the first of its kind Tissue Repository in India.
HSCC (India) Ltd, a public sector enterprise under the administrative control of the Health & Family Welfare Ministry has been appointed as Project Consultant for it by AIIMS Delhi.
To be established at a cost of Rs. 2,035 crore, the Institute will come up on the campus of All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS Cancer Institute.
The project is estimated to be completed in 45 months, and will help reduce the deficit of tertiary cancer care in the Northern region
Cancer is emerging as a major public health concern in India, where 11 lakh new cases are diagnosed every year and the mortality rate is 5.5 lakh per year.
Cancer treatment facilities in India are lagging behind when compared to WHO standards that requires a radiotherapy machine per million population. India at present has 0.41 machines per million population and the setting up of this institute will herald a new chapter in the initiative against cancer.
The Institute will have 710 beds for different facilities like surgical oncology, radiation oncology, medical oncology, anaesthesia and palliative care and nuclear medicine. It will also have the first of its kind Tissue Repository in India.
HSCC (India) Ltd, a public sector enterprise under the administrative control of the Health & Family Welfare Ministry has been appointed as Project Consultant for it by AIIMS Delhi.
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