PIL push for PET-CT in Acharya Harihar

By Express News Service
CUTTACK: A Woman affected by esophagus most cancers has filed a PIL within the Orissa High Court searching for path to the State authorities to begin PET-CT scan facility on the Acharya Harihar Post Graduate Institute of Cancer in Cuttack for the advantage of sufferers. Anita Budhia, a 50-year-old resident of Markatnagar, filed the petition on Monday questioning why the institute didn’t have PET-CT scan facility regardless of being a number one most cancers institute in japanese India and the one government-run hospital for therapy of most cancers within the State. PET-CT scan is an important take a look at required for detecting if a most cancers cell has unfold to physique components of a affected person aside from the preliminary organ.

According to the petition, there is just one non-public diagnostics centre in Cuttack that gives PET-CT scan facility at the price of Rs 23, 000 aside from the 2 different non-public centres in Bhubaneswar. Of the five hundred sufferers that flip up on the most cancers hospital to avail outside facility day-after-day, a mean 25 sufferers are suggested to endure PET-CT scan. “Only those who can afford the test rush to the private centres while others surrender to the mercy of God”, the petition stated.

The petitioner has named the Additional Chief Secretary of Health and Family Welfare Department, Director Medical Education & Training and Director of Acharya Harihar Post Graduate Institute of Cancer as respondents within the petition. PET-CT scan is understood to be the newest and trendy tools to detect most cancers. “But non-installation of such essential equipment goes on to show the nexus between the authorities concerned and the private sector players at the cost and risk of cancer patients”, the petition alleged.