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ARMOURED TO FIGHT CANCER
The New Indian Express
|April 07, 2024
Pained by his mom's battle, the 75-year-old doctor is building a hospital dedicated to cancer care in Tiruppur district under 'Namakku Naame' scheme
TIRESOME look, pale skin, hair loss, high dosage medications and regular hospital visits were some of the most usual things Dr A Muruganathan saw his mother go through when she was diagnosed with cancer in 1999.
Since there weren't any cancer centres in western Tamil Nadu, regular travel to a private hospital in Chennai made things even worse. That is when Muruganathan's brother Sakthivel proposed to create a cancer care hospital for an estimated cost of 60 crore, which was too expensive to afford.
Muruganathan was born in a middle-class family in Coimbatore on June 19, 1951. His journey into the world of medicine was shaped by a personal tragedy and an unwavering commitment to service. The loss of mis father to a heart attack on Sepcember 15, 1976, stirred within mim a deep-seated desire to alleviate the suffering of others and pursue medicine.
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