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Kolkata's AMRI to upgrade cancer centre
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Kolkata, Oct. 11
THE Kolkata-based Advanced Medicare and Research Institute (AMRI) has taken up a Rs 60-crore project to upgrade its cancer treatment centre and add new facilities in neurosurgery and cardio surgery departments.
Brig. S.B. Purakayastha (Retd), President of AMRI, told presspersons here on Monday that the new project would have 180 beds. The cancer centre up-gradation would include installation of two linear accelerators, moving lasers and Brachy therapy system.
The linear accelerators - one being 15 mv high energy and another 6 mv low energy - will enable the centre to provide precision radiation therapy. Cost of these two intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) units would be around Rs 11 crore. The total investment for the cancer centre would be Rs 30 crore and it would be ready by December end this year. The remaining part of the project would be through by May 2005.
There are a few IMRT units in operation in the country. These top-of-the-line units, capable of eliminating affected cells with much reduced side-effects, are currently available in Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, AIIMS and Rajiv Memorial Cancer Research Institute in New Delhi.
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