Andhra Pradesh Minister for Health, Medical and Family Welfare Vidadala Rajini has said that the government is setting up State cancer centres in Kadapa and Kurnool at a cost of ₹220 crore and the facilities will start functioning by October-end this year.
Ms. Rajini, along with Advisor to Government (Cancer Care) Nori Dattatreyudu and Special Chief Secretary M.T. Krishna Babu held a review meeting in the department headquarters in Mangalagiri on August 10 (Thursday).
Ms. Rajini stressed the need for bringing all the cancer hospitals in the State under the purview of the ‘cancer grid’ set up at the Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital in Visakhapatnam, adding that 64 cancer hospitals in the State have been empanelled under the Aarogyasri scheme so far.
