New Delhi, Jan 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the second campus of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) in Kolkata on January 7, via video conferencing, a statement here said on Thursday.
The second campus which has been built at a cost of over Rs 530 crore, out of which around Rs 400 crore was granted by the Centre, is a 460-bedded comprehensive cancer centre unit with cutting edge infrastructure for cancer diagnosis, staging, treatment and care, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said.
The campus is equipped with modern facilities like Nuclear Medicine (PET), 3.0 Tesla MRI, 128 slice CT scanner, Radionuclide therapy unit, endoscopy suite, modern brachytherapy units etc, the release said.
It will also work as an advanced cancer research facility and will provide comprehensive care to cancer patients, especially those from the Eastern and North-Eastern parts of the country, it said.
CNCI had been facing a heavy load of cancer patients and a need for its expansion was being felt for quite sometime, which will now be fulfilled through the second campus, it added.
