Government focusing on ensuring cancer care across country: Nadda

He said the government spent `3,000 crore to set up 19 state cancer institutes and 20 tertiary care cancer centres. The minister reiterated the budget announcement of setting up 200 cancer day care centres at district hospitals.

“Cancer is a daunting diagnosis that brings fear—not just of the illness, but of the future, of livelihood, and the inevitable economic and emotional strain,” said Nadda. He cited a study recently published in Lancet that said Ayushman Bharat scheme may have led to an increase in the number of people initiating cancer treatment on time.

Nadda visited the new Nuclear Medicine Targeted Treatment Ward and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at the Jhajjar campus, which will provide treatment for thyroid and blood cancers.