Treating cancer
When a close relative of mine had the first symptoms of breast cancer known, she was advised by all and sundry to take treatment at Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai. “For God’s sake, don’t have it in Kolkata”, they all echoed. She decided on the contrary, preferring Dr. Saikat Gupta’s care at Apollo Gleneagles Hospital instead, and now she is doing okay.
My father too, when he suffered from colon cancer 17 years ago, got all treatment in Kolkata, his post-operative treatment done under the care of legendary cancer specialist, Dr. Saroj Gupta. He recovered well and went on to live for 16 years before succumbing to lungs congestion last year.
If my experience tells otherwise, it is an exception. General perception about quality of medical treatment in Kolkata ranks very low, treatment of cancer more so. Not without reason.
Keeping pace with all-round decline in quality of life in the past few decades, healthcare too in the state worsened. In absence of new facilities in the city, people with moderate sum to spare rushed to southern states, while the cancer patients would much rather prefer Mumbai in place of who-knows-what-may-happen Kolkata.
In the last few years, the tide is gradually ebbing in favor of state-of-the-art facilities that have come up in the city. Apart from Apollo Gleneagles, the radiology department in Dhakuria’s AMRI Hospital caters to large number of cancer patients.
To that will now add more options that are fast taking shape. Tata Memorial will have a Rs.120 crore super-specialized hospital in Rajarhat, christened Tata Medical Center, dedicated to cancer treatment. Apollo also is jacking up cancer treatment facility in its existing campus on EM Bypass for Rs.40 crore. Not to be outdone, Thakurpukur’s Cancer Center Welfare Home and Research Institute too is going for Rs.12 crore upgrade plans.
There is business to be had in Kolkata for treating cancer, what with over 24% of 230,000 patients Tata Memorial in Mumbai attends to coming from the east and northeast of the country.
But there will be other advantages as well. Superior service at these upcoming hospitals will raise the bar of overall healthcare sector, for nothing spells success than competition.
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My father too, when he suffered from colon cancer 17 years ago, got all treatment in Kolkata, his post-operative treatment done under the care of legendary cancer specialist, Dr. Saroj Gupta. He recovered well and went on to live for 16 years before succumbing to lungs congestion last year.
If my experience tells otherwise, it is an exception. General perception about quality of medical treatment in Kolkata ranks very low, treatment of cancer more so. Not without reason.
Keeping pace with all-round decline in quality of life in the past few decades, healthcare too in the state worsened. In absence of new facilities in the city, people with moderate sum to spare rushed to southern states, while the cancer patients would much rather prefer Mumbai in place of who-knows-what-may-happen Kolkata.
In the last few years, the tide is gradually ebbing in favor of state-of-the-art facilities that have come up in the city. Apart from Apollo Gleneagles, the radiology department in Dhakuria’s AMRI Hospital caters to large number of cancer patients.
To that will now add more options that are fast taking shape. Tata Memorial will have a Rs.120 crore super-specialized hospital in Rajarhat, christened Tata Medical Center, dedicated to cancer treatment. Apollo also is jacking up cancer treatment facility in its existing campus on EM Bypass for Rs.40 crore. Not to be outdone, Thakurpukur’s Cancer Center Welfare Home and Research Institute too is going for Rs.12 crore upgrade plans.
There is business to be had in Kolkata for treating cancer, what with over 24% of 230,000 patients Tata Memorial in Mumbai attends to coming from the east and northeast of the country.
But there will be other advantages as well. Superior service at these upcoming hospitals will raise the bar of overall healthcare sector, for nothing spells success than competition.
Related reading:
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