Health, Finance, and Education Minister of Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma while announcing the Vote-on-Account budget for 2021-22 announced that all under-construction cancer care hospitals in the state will be fully operational by September 2021.
“I am happy to announce that the implementation of the Assam Cancer Care Program has progressed significantly. Our vision of making available the best cancer care treatment in Assam is on the verge of being realized. The Cancer Care Centres at Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Barpeta, Diphu, Tezpur, Lakhimpur, Jorhat, Mangaldoi, and Kokrajhar are scheduled to be fully functional by September 2021. We can any day invite the Prime Minister to inaugurate all the hospitals in a day itself,” the Finance Minister stated.
The health minister also implied that no other state government has undertaken this level of comprehensive cancer care program.