Bhujbal lauds HCG Manavata Cancer Centre

Nashik: District guardian minister Chhagan Bhujbal on Saturday inaugurated the nuclear medicine department at the HCG Manavata Cancer Centre. He said cancer patients from north Maharashtra will now no longer need to go to the bigger cities, like Mumbai or Pune, for treatment.
HCG Manavata Cancer Centre’s nuclear medicine department will be the first in the region to have state-of-the-art services including two PET scan machines, a gamma camera, gallium generator and four iodine therapy wards under one roof for better services to the patients.
Raj Nagarkar, MD and chief surgical oncologist of the cancer centre, said since 2013, more than 16,600 patients have taken benefit of the PET CT scan. He said even during the lockdown period, they could perform three bone marrow surgeries and 315 robotic surgeries.
Sameer Chandratre, president of IMA Nashik, also expressed his views on the occasion saying that the cancer centre not only has a name of Manavata attached to it, but it has lived up to its name by showing full support to the cancer patients even during the time of the Covid-19 lockdown.