Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday asked the officials of the Medical and Health Department to focus on preventive and curative measures for cancer.
Chairing a review meeting at his camp office on Tuesday, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy made it clear that every medical college in the State must have a separate department for cancer and that all cancer wings in the seven medical colleges should be modernised.
He said that Linear Accelerator (LINAC) machines, which are used for radiation treatments of cancer patients, should be made available in the four teaching hospitals associated with the Government General Hospitals (GGHs) at Anantapur, Guntur, Vijayawada and Kakinada.
