Asr, Jalandhar need super-specialty cancer hospitals: SAD

Chandigarh: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Tuesday called for establishing super-specialty cancer hospitals in Amritsar and Jalandhar under the aegis of the Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Mohali, being inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday.
The SAD said the Mohali hospital was former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal’s dream project. SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia said it was also a red letter day for Punjab that the war on cancer initiated by Badal had resulted in successful completion of the Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre.“Parkash Singh Badal personally visited the Tata Memorial Centre and requested its board to establish the Homi Bhabha hospital in Mohali and it became the first such institute to be approved by the TMC Board outside Mumbai,” said Majithia.
On the need to expand this initiative, Majithia said since a 100-bedded sub-centre of the Mohali research centre had been established in Sangrur, two 100-bedded super-specialty cancer hospitals each should be established at Amritsar to cater to the Majha region and at Jalandhar for the Doaba region.