Surat New Civil Cancer hospital upgraded at Rs. 20 crore cost

Surat, 28 May, 2014

The Gujarat government has upgraded the Lions Cancer and Detection Center at a cost of Rs. 20 crore in new civil hospital campus in Surat. State Health Minister Nitin Patel is going to inaugurate the upgraded facility on 31st of May.

The new facilities include a Linear Accelerator machine(Rs. 10 crore) with tele cobalt machine and teletherapy facilities, a Remote Controlled After Loading therapy machine(Rs. 1 crore) with mold therapy facility, and a City simulator machine(Rs. 2 crore).

Lions Cancer and detection center is functional in Civil hospital campus since 1978. Various types of cancers are treated for free here. In last 35 years over one million patients have been served here. Presently the hospital has two cobalt machine in radiation department serving daily 150-180 patients for free. Similarly in Chemotherapy department, daily 60-80 patients get free treatment. The center is served by 20 expert doctors voluntarily. The hospital has research and detection, radiotherapy, state-of-the-art 3D treatment planning system machine, Chemotherapy, pathology etc facilities.