Boost for cancer treatment

Come April. A new cancer hospital will start functioning at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital. The hospital would be ready by March  and that 90 per cent work of the new cancer hospital on the GMCH premises was complete.

Health minister Dr Nazrul Islam said that it would help the B Barooah Cancer Institute reduce the increasing load of patients. The health and family welfare minister said it on Monday when he inaugurated a dual head gamma camera machine with SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography) at B. Borooah Cancer Institute.