The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi inaugurated the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at Badhsa village in Jhajjar district.
About:
Objective: The NCI will be the nodal institution for all activities related to cancer in the country and will have linkages with regional cancer centres and other cancer institutes within the country.
Features:
National Cancer Institute (NCI) is the country’s largest cancer hospital.
It will have 710 beds for different facilities like surgical oncology, radiation oncology, medical oncology, anaesthesia, palliative care and nuclear medicine, besides 1,080 hostel rooms for doctors and 800 rooms for attendants of cancer patients.
Parent institute: The NCI is which is a project under Delhi AIIMS. The new centre will take off some load from AIIMS which receives more than 1,000 cancer patients daily.
Background: The foundation stone of the NCI was laid by the then Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh in 2014.
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