CM inaugurates Rs.2.4 crore machine for early breast cancer detection in IGMC
Author(s): City Air NewsShimla, January 8, 2016: Chief Minister Shri Virbhadra Singh today inaugurated digital mammography machine in Radiology department of Indira Gandhi Medical College & Hospital, Shimla. The machine has been installed...
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Jan 8, 2016 10:30
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Shimla, January 8, 2016: Chief Minister Shri Virbhadra Singh today inaugurated digital mammography machine in Radiology department of Indira Gandhi Medical College & Hospital, Shimla. The machine has been installed at a cost of Rs.2.4 crore and is one of the best digital mammography machines in northern India.
The Chief Minister said that this was a state of art machine for early detection of breast cancer and it would go a long way in the better treatment of cases of breast cancer especially in the female patients. The machine passes lowest possible radiation dose to the patients and has very high detection rate for cancer at an early stage, which was not possible with earlier conventional mammography machines.
This machine has added facility of 3D Tomosynthesis, which could detect hidden lesions within the dense breast. The stereotactic biopsy system supplied with this machine would be handy for final tissue diagnosis with nearly 100 percent accuracy.
The Chief Minister said another digital mammography machine would also be installed at Tanda Medical College in Kangra district to benefit the patients of lower parts of the State with this latest technology.
He said that the State government was laying special emphasis on providing best health care services to the people of the State for which infrastructure was being in the health institutions.
The Chief Minister said IGMC was one of the premier medical institutions in the State and the government was endeavouring to provide more infrastructural and other facilities so that people of the State need not to go out of State to treatment of various diseases.
He said the State government had opened 100 new health institutions besides filling up 550 posts of doctors and 60 posts of specialists during last three years. Three medical colleges had also been approved by the Government of India for the State at Chamba, Hamirpur & Mandi with financial assistance of Rs. 190 crore each and All India Institute of Medical Sciences was coming up in Bilaspur district.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Shri Kaul Singh Thakur, Mayor, Municipal Corporation, Shimla Shri Sanjay Chauhan and Deputy Mayor Shri Tikender Panwar, Deputy Commissioner Shri Dinesh Malhotra, Principal, IGMC Dr. S.S. Kaushal, Director, Medical Education Dr. Jaishree Sharma, Sr. Medical Superintendent Dr. Ramesh Chand, Head of Radiology department Dr. R.G. Sood, other medical fraternity and senior officers of the State government were also present on the occasion.
Date:
Friday, January 8, 2016
