New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the second campus of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) in Kolkata today via video conferencing at 1 PM. The CNCI aims to “provide comprehensive care to cancer patients especially those from Eastern and North-Eastern parts of the country.”
Built at a cost of Rs 530 crore, Rs 400 crore given by the central government, and the rest by the West Bengal government in a 75:25 ratio, the 460 bedded cancer care unit has cutting edge infrastructure for cancer diagnosis, staging, treatment, and care.
According to a press release by the Prime Minister’s Office, “the second campus of CNCI has been built in line with the Prime Minister's vision to expand and upgrade the health facilities in all parts of the country.” This second campus would reduce the load from the first campus and also fulfill the need for expansion being felt for a long time now.
PM Modi took to Twitter to reiterate the importance of this project saying, “This Institute will augment healthcare capacities in Eastern India and in the Northeast.”
The campus has modern facilities “like Nuclear Medicine (PET), 3.0 Tesla MRI, 128 slice CT scanner, Radionuclide therapy unit, endoscopy suite, modern brachytherapy units, etc.”
It will also work as an advanced cancer research facility along with providing treatment and care to cancer patients. On January 4, the PM had inaugurated and laid foundation stones for 22 developmental projects in poll-bound Manipur. He had also inaugurated the integrated terminal at the Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport in Agartala, Tripura.