NCI will be landmark in cancer research: Deepender Hooda

Congress MP Deepender Singh Hooda today thanked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Union Cabinet for approving the proposal for setting up of National Cancer Institute (NCI) at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) campus in Badhsa village of Jhajjar district.
The Cancer Institute at AIIMS campus was approved by the Union Cabinet today that would entail an expenditure of Rs 2,035 crore in the first phase and will provide world class healthcare facilities to the poor.
Hooda said the mega project would be a landmark in the area of cancer research and shall lessen the deficit of tertiary cancer care in the country.

He claimed that he has been pursuing the matter with the Union Government and the approval has met the long-pending demand of the people of Haryana State.
It is a matter of pride for all people of Haryana that the only National Cancer Institute would be set up in the State, he said.
Hooda said that he was particularly thankful to the Cabinet as Cancer has emerged as a major public health concern in the country and its treatment is very costly, so the poor could not afford the treatment of cancer.