Chandigarh, Feb 12 (UNI) Union Health Minister J P Nadda, Haryana Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Minister O P Dhankar along with AIIMS officials visited the newly constructed National Cancer Institute at Bhadsa in Jhajjar after the Institute was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi through video conferencing from Kurukshetra.
Giving details about the NCI, AIIMS Director Prof Randeep Guleria said that besides residence block, hospital block, OPD block, guest house, educational block, administration block, research block, service block have been constructed in this Cancer Institute. The institute has been constructed on about 60 acres at the cost of about Rs 2035 crore.
After inauguration of this 710-bedded institute, in the first phase, hospital of 250 beds has been opened and in the second phase, that is by December this year, the bed capacity would be increased to 500 beds and in the third and last phase, that is December next year, the number of beds would be increased by 210 beds, which would take the total number of beds to 710. The requirement of about 3,000 Cancer Specialists for this 710-bedded hospital would be fulfilled by next year, he added.