ABOUT Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital Sangrur Punjab

Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital, Sangrur is a joint venture of Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai and Govt. of Punjab. This hospital was started functioning since January – 2015 inside the civil hospital campus, Sangrur with an aim to provide the best quality of care and cancer treatment facilities in all aspects in an affordable cost to the patients of the Punjab and nearby states. In support of Punjab Govt., & TMC, Mumbai this unit is having not only the trained manpower like Doctors, Nursing & other paramedical staff but also high end equipment like Linear Accelerator, Bhabhatron, 18 channel Brachy, High Bore CT, 1.5 Tesla MRI, Digital Mammography, Digital X-ray, Mobile X-ray(Digital), Higher end USG, Mobile USG for diagnosis. This hospital has been upgraded to 100 bedded facility during November – 2018 and inaugurated by Captn. Amarinder Singh, Honble Chief Minister, Punjab. So far, more than 15000 no. of patients are registered by HBCH, Sangrur. More than 1.5 lakh pathological investigations are conducted in one year. In this rural centre, we are also doing investigation like frozen section, immune histochemistry. We want to add digital slide scanner in recent future, so that we can easily share the slides to other facilities for reference and study purpose. In addition to above, one prevention programme i.e, Early Detection for Oral, Breast & Cervical Cancer has already been started during the month of November 2018 in the district Sangrur & Bhawanigarh. This facility is enrolled with Mukh Mantri Punjab Cancer Rahat Kosh Scheme (MMPCRKS) and Ayushman Bharat Scheme to extend the financial support to the patients during treatment. More over medications were provided to the patients at subsidized rate i.e, 60% less than MRP. Side by side various BSc courses like MLT, Radiotherapy, MRIT, OT Tech., Anesthesia Tech., ICU Tech., Post Basic Diploma in Oncology Nursing & MSc. Histopathology are running in order to share knowledge among the local population and to strengthen the facility. HBCH, Sangrur is an affiliated institute by Baba Farid Universith of Health Sciences, Faridkot and declared as authorised training centre for Oncology related disciplines. HBCH, Sangrur is an IT based facility running with paperless activities. Smart card was introduced for cash less transaction and online access to patients for the reports from anywhere in India. It is my immense pleasure to appraise that HBCH, Sangrur will soon come up with advanced medical technology in the form of Interventional Radiology, PET - CT and SPECT - CT in this region at an affordable cost. We are going to have one more State of the Art Linear Accelerator to treat Cancer patients with advanced technology. Separate hostel for Boys and Girls are under construction. Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital & Research Centre, Mullanpur, a 350 bedded cancer hospital under the banner Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai will be commissioned by the end of year 2020. This will be region’s first comprehensive Cancer Hospital with all the facilities under one roof. It is my privilege and I am humbled to lead these two units of Tata memorial Centre as Director and l am committed to provide best possible treatment with optimal technology and trained manpower in an affordable cost to the cancer patients of this region.