New Delhi: In the movement that highly moved the top military veteran, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday personally reached LT-General (Retd) in Huba to convince him about all aid in finding new drugs to fight terminal cancer.
PMO’s attention was pulled into the kasing by the brother Lt-Gen Hooda, Sushma Singh (68), when he tweeted about the need for a drug called Sacituzumab Govitecan (trodelvy), which was approved in the United States and Europe this year, for himself and Many other women fought breast cancer in India.
LT-Gen Hooda strengthens tweets with his own tweet to declare his sister is “a cancer patient several years by expecting hope”.
He said, “The approval of new drugs can provide opportunities for battle to survive for many people like him.” LT-Gen Hooda, a former North Wind Commander, got a call from Modi within two hours.
“I was really surprised and humble.
I told PM that I was crying in my eyes.
PM said we would try and help him and do whatever we could,” he told Toi.
Immediately after, an official also contacted his sister and asked him to prescribe the doctor and other documents to continue this case.
Singh said he underwent treatment for “three-fold negative metastatic breast cancer, which has limited care options”.
Request PM to speed up the approval and purchase of new drugs for the Indian market, Singh said this would “provide lives to me and others who had spent all the treatment options”.
PM guarantees veteran aid in getting cancer drugs for sisters
