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Bhubaneswar, March 8: Cancer patients have reason to cheer with the state government all set to open a special cancer detection wing with basic diagnostic facilities in the outpatient department of Capital Hospital in the city.
The wing will be inaugurated at 10 am Monday by health and family welfare minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak at a function at which health secretary Arati Ahuja and other senior officials of the department will be present.
The facility will give a fillip to interventions for early detection of cancer, according to sources. It will function under the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular diseases and Stroke.
The government has already appointed four doctors, two staff nurses and two technicians for the cancer detection wing. A special training programme has also been held for the staff at Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Centre (AHRCC), Cuttack.
If there is any symptom of cancer, the patient will immediately be referred to the wing for additional tests, sources said. Nayak had during the ongoing Budget session of the Assembly, informed the House that the government would soon launch a separate cancer wing at Capital Hospital.
