Parliamentary panel on Tuesday suggested a reduction in Goods and Services Tax (GST) for drugs and making available indigenous vaccines for affordable treatment of Cancer patients in the country, sources said.
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GUWAHATI: Filmmaker Shankar Lall Goenka has been honoured with “Life Time Achievement Award” by the prestigious Dr Bhubaneswar Borooah Cancer Institute (BBCI) for his outstanding contribution to society, especially for treating cancer patients.
Director of the region’s premier healthcare centre, Dr AC Kataki, in a letter to Goenka, said, “In recognition of your service, we are pleased to confer ‘Life Time Achievement Award’ to you for outstanding contribution to society.”
Goenka is a leading filmmaker of the northeast and several of his films have bagged the national award, besides getting recognitions at foreign festivals.
Goenka announced that from this year onwards, he will sponsor a national award that the BBCI will give to an individual for contributing outstandingly in the field of cancer disease.
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GUWAHATI: In the midst of the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, Dr Bhubaneswar Borooah Cancer Institute (BBCI) the lone full-fledged cancer care institute in North East is gearing up to treat Cancer patientsthe .
BBCI Director Dr Amal Chandra Kataki told The Sentinel on Tuesday that his institute is taking steps to ensure that the cancer patients can easily avail treatments there. The outbreak of COVID-19 and the consequent nationwide lockdown in 2020 taught us many things. In 2020, things went haywire at BBCI as the institute faced the pandemic situation for the first time. Despite all hassles, we managed to give treatments to the cancer patients as far as possible. But this time, we have the advantage of having the experience to deal with such situation. In addition majority of our Health workers, doctors and nurses have been already vaccinated; and, they are now in a better position to treat patients even if there is a second wave of COVID in the State
this has shown that primary health centres often fail to correctly diagnose diseases such as cancer, and patients are forced to go to tertiary care facilities for a correct diagnosis, treatment and care. “When cancer is detected at an advanced stage, treatment may not be possible, which is why the survival rate is poor here [in the northeastern region],” Chandra said.
To get around this problem, the Arunachal Pradesh government decided this March to start screening people for common cancers – of the stomach, liver, breast and cervix. “Stomach and liver are our priorities because the rates are very high here,” Tsering said. But because of the ongoing pandemic, the project did not take off. When it does, it could help save many lives by detecting cancers at early stages, he said.