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200 daycare cancer centres to be set up in FY26
The New Indian Express Bengaluru
|February 14, 2025
THE Union Health Ministry has begun setting up 200 daycare cancer centres in over 750 district hospitals in the country, a top ministry official said on Friday.
"We have started carrying out surveys to assess the gaps in these over 750 district hospitals. We plan to upgrade them after we get the detailed report. Then we will start the process of setting up daycare cancer centres," Union Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava told this newspaper.
In her budget speech, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced facilitating setting up of daycare cancer centres in all district hospitals over the next three years. "Our government will facilitate the establishment of Daycare Cancer Centres in all district hospitals over the next three years. Two hundred centres will be set up in 2025-26," Sitharaman had said.
The health secretary said the total estimated expenditure in the next three years in establishing these daycare cancer centres will be ₹3,200 crore.
This story is from the February 14, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Bengaluru.
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