Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will launch the OPD service at the Super Specialty Cancer Institute (SSCI) in the state capital on Tuesday.
The SSCI would be the biggest cancer centre in the country once it gets fully functional.
With 1,250 beds, it will be bigger than the National Cancer Institute of Jhajjar (Haryana) which has 700 beds. The institute will be twice the size of the Tata Memorial Institute of Mumbai which has about 650 beds and will be four times of Delhi's Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute.
The Chief Minister will dedicate the SSCI's main OPD block in a virtual ceremony in the presence of Union Defence Minister and Lucknow MP Rajnath Singh.
The Out-patient services like day care, radiation oncology and surgical oncology will begin at the SSCI. After this, 750 beds would be made functional in the first phase and 500 in the second.
According to Additional Chief Secretary, Medical Education, Dr. Rajneesh Dubey, "Besides being a benchmark in patient care by providing state-of-the-art and affordable services, SSCI will serve as the apex state cancer institute for capacity building. It will also start a population-based cancer registry for the state capital."
The institute will follow the DMG format. Under this, specialists of all disciplines sit in a room along with the patient who sits just opposite them as is witnessed in high profile interviews. The experts will listen to the medical issues of the patient and finalise the treatment line.
The Chief Minister wants the facility to become functional at the earliest to save scores of poor people in the state from selling their assets to afford cancer treatment in big cities.