CHIEF MINISTER Shivraj Singh Chouhan has promised to release funds for treatment of 74 patients identified by the Indore Cancer Foundation team at camps held in Guna and Sehore.
The Chief Minister gave the assurance while visiting patients being treated by the foundation at Mission Hospital, Chhawani recently. According to the Foundation rural co-ordinator Dr Amit Joshi, 600 suspected patients were examined at the cancer detection camp held in association with the district administration at the Community Health centre at Budhni in Sehore district.
Twenty-two suspected cancer patients were shifted to Indore for prompt treatment. 20 patients have already been put under treatment. A team of doctors including foundation secretary Dr Digpal Dharkar, Dr Ravi Soni, Dr Tushar Phulambrikar, Dr Joshi and Dr Jatwar is giving treatment.
Six hundred and one patients were screened at the camp in Guna. Fifty-four suspected patients were suggested for treatment of which treatment of 18 patients has already begun.
A team of doctors comprising Dr Dharkar, Dr Soni, Dr Phulambrikar, Dr Joshi, Dr Ashish Mahrotra, Dr KP Singh and Ranjana Chouhan and Albert Godwin attended the camp.
The district Red Cross Society immediately sanctioned Rs 2.50 lakh for the treatment of patients from the district.