Govt to set up Rs 45-cr cancer care unit in Gwalior: Nadda

Health Minister JP Nadda on Tuesday announced that the Centre would set up a state-level cancer care unit here at a cost of Rs 45 crore.

“A state-level cancer care unit will come up on the campus of government-run JA Hospital. The Centre is going to spend Rs 45 crore to set up the unit,” he said at the stone-laying ceremony of super-specialty block at government GR Medical College here.

He also lauded the state government for the “effective” implementation of vaccination programme under the Centre’s ‘Indradhanush Mission’.

“The effective implementation of Indradhanush Mission has brought down infant and child mortality rate in Madhya Pradesh,” he said.