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Rajasthan plans speciality cancer hospital

By Our Special Correspondent

JAIPUR, OCT. 14. A world-class speciality hospital and centre equipped with sophisticated facilities for medical management of cancer will soon be established in Rajasthan. The cooperation of international specialists will be sought to develop the medical centre.

Announcing this at a conference of the World Federation of Neurological Society here early this week, the Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje, said the centre would make available the treatment facilities of global standards to the cancer patients in the State at their doorstep.

Ms. Raje said the State Government was making efforts to secure the cooperation of speciality centres in developed countries, such as the M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre of the U.S., Harvard School of Medicine, Wisconsin University, J.K.F. Neuro-Science Institute and Western Hospital, and Saint Mishel's Hospital of Canada.

The Chief Minister pointed out that the Neurosurgery Department of Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur, which was the biggest hospital in the State, was functioning as one of the best centres in the northern States and treating patients from different parts of the country.

She said the State Government had laid a special emphasis on the healthcare enhancement programme in rural areas as part of its priority to the improvement of human development index.

"Tele-medicine centres being set up in villages will first be linked with S.M.S. Hospital here and thereafter connected with the important medical centres in the country and abroad''.

The State Education Minister, Ghanshyam Tiwari, addressing the three-day conference, said a medical university to be established shortly here would significantly improve the standards of medical education.

He pointed out that the S.M.S. Hospital's Neurosurgery Department was successfully conducting about 3,500 operations every year.

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