NELLORE: President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam will inaugurate several units of Jakka Sujathamma Cancer Hospital here on December 11.

The President will inaugurate radiation oncology, radiation therapy and cobalt units at the J S Cancer Hospital. The hospital, which is being run by the Indian Red Cross Society of Nellore, has been built with financial support from different quarters.

It may be recalled that Dodla Varadha Reddy and Rukminamma Charitable Trust donated Rs 50 lakhs for the radiation therapy unit. As a matching grant, the State Government too sanctioned an equal amount of money--Rs 50 lakhs for the hospital.

Donations

Noted philanthropist J S Reddy donated Rs 10 lakhs for the cancer hospital, which was built in more than two-and-a-half acres of land near the Government District Hospital. It was initially a cancer detection centre and later transformed into a hospital with Bollineni Krishnaiah donating ultra sound equipment worth more than Rs 12 lakhs and donations by several other persons.

Andhra Bank donated modern mammography equipment worth Rs 10 lakhs, which can detect breast cancer at an early stage. Auditor Dasaratharami Reddy and G Kanya Kumar donated Rs 10 lakhs each for the construction of surgical oncology block while noted surgical oncologist Aruna Chandrasekhar has come forward to do service through the hospital.

Minister's gesture

Meanwhile, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Panabaka Lakshmi and local MP, inspired by the initiative, used her good offices for the Centre sanctioning a grant of Rs 2.5 crores for the hospital.

As a result, cobalt unit too has been set up at the cancer hospital, which has got mandatory approval from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).

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