Command Hospital gets new scanner for cancer detection

As part of modernising healthcare facilities for the armed forces and their families, the Command Hospital in Kolkata now has a new state-of-the-art PET-CT scanner equipment for cancer detection.
After inaugurating the facility, Lt Gen V P Chaturvedi, DG Medical Services (Army) said sophisticated diagnostic tools like PET-CT will be of great help in formalising the protocols of therapy among cancer patients.
Pointing out that with increasing life spans there has been a quantum jump in cases of cancer and heart diseases among other diseases, Hospital Commandant Maj Gen Deepak Kalra said diagnostic services will benefit not just the serving soldiers, ex-servicemen and their dependents in and around Kolkata but also others stationed elsewhere in the entire eastern sector.

The Indian Armed Forces through the Directorate General of Armed Forces Medical Services has embarked on an ambitious programme of modernising health care facilities.
This latest facility will immensely help the patients for early diagnosis and help clinicians to plan therapeutic options.