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Union Minister Suresh Gopi plants flowering tree on RGCB campus

Thiruvananthapuram, July 19 (UNI) Union Minister of State for Tourism, Petroleum & Natural Gas Suresh Gopi on Friday said he would apprise the Centre of the need to expedite the ambitious projects of the campus-II of Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) here.
Efforts are on to make RGCB a hub of advanced medical research and medicine development.
After a visit to the campus and extensive interaction with the Director and senior scientists, Gopi said he would take up with the ministers concerned about the need to fast-track the path-breaking projects undertaken by RGCB’s campus-II, including that of setting up a referral hospital for cancer patients needing palliative care.
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