Bhubaneswar: Chairman of the Minister of Naveen Patnaik on Monday placed the foundations for advanced cancer hospitals and palliative care centers here at InfoVovalley.
While one is a cancer hospital and the proposed Bagchi-Sri Shankara Research Center, the other is the Bagchi-Karunashraya Palliative Care Center.
The Sri Shankar Foundation will run a 750 bed cancer hospital, while Bengaluru-based hospital trust will run an 110 bed palliative care unit.
This will help the capital city be a leading center in cancer and palliative care services in this country.
The palliative care unit will provide free services, officials said.
Subroto Bagchi, chairman of the Odisha skills development authority, and wife of Susmita Bagchi, chairman of Mo Abhiyan’s school, has contributed RS 340 Crore for these two cancer care institutions.
The minister’s chairman praised the couple for this noble effort.
Naveen while talking to people on the occasion said the two institutions would help Odisha patients in accessing quality health facilities.
The state government will provide all support for initial settlement, he added.
The Shankara Cancer Foundation, led by Dr.
Srinath, was setting up a cancer hospital that would work on a cross-subsidy model.
Naveen further said Kishore Rao and Gurmeet Randhawa, the founder of Bangalore Hospice Trust and their team had served dying needs with dignity for more than 25 years through their Karunashraya.
Dr.
Srinath from Shankar Cancer Foundation said the hospital would be a one-roof cancer center with all care facilities, including bone marrow transplants.
The hospital will have facilities for PG training in oncology, he added.
Randhawa said the palliative center in Bhubaneswar will be developed as the best palliative care facility in the world.
They will train more than 25,000 young people, including Tribal Girls, in the next five years.
“We started this initiative on Rath Yatra and there could be no more work arguing than serving the people,” said Subroto Bagchi.
His wife, Susmita, and other officials were present on that occasion.