Hyderabad, September 19: A cytogenetics facility was inaugurated today at the Indo-American Cancer Institute and Research Centre by its chairman and actor Nandamuri Balakrishna.
Balakrishna also formally launched an RTC bus service from the Secunderabad railway station to the cancer hospital. Balakrishna said revolutionary changes were taking place in the health care sector. In order to bring the latest facilities within the reach of patients, the cancer hospital started the cytogenetics, a new testing facility for the first time in South India. The test was necessary for leukaemia and other diseases.
The equipment was installed at a cost of Rs 16 lakh. He said two more blocks, including a service block for patients, would soon come up on the hospital premises. He said 80 percent of the patients treated at the hospital were from poorer sections of society and were utilising the government’s Arogyasri programme.
Hospital chief executive officer Ram Pratap Singh and others were present.
–Agencies