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AIMS to start cancer centre

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI, JAN. 29. The Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) will embark on a cancer treatment programme and launch a Comprehensive Cancer Care Centre at the institute in Edappally on January 31.

Addressing a press conference here today, the Medical Director of AIMS, Prem Nair, along with the experts handling the Oncology Department, said the Centre would extend charitable care to cancer patients from the poor sections of society. He said that 400 beds would soon be added to the 800-bed hospital. There will also be a research programme for cancer undertaken by the experts in the hospital. An institution-based tumour registry programme would be part of the research effort.

The hospital had set up two linear accelerators, a 3-D treatment planning system with CT simulator, a high dose rate microselectron for brachytherapy and other hi-tech equipment, Dr. Nair said.

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