BIO wants to set up cancer institute in Asom

SILCHAR, April 17: Meditation and will power could do miracles even in treatment for cancer. This has been claimed by Bangalore Institute Oncology, (BIO) a premier institute of cancer treatment in the South Asia, medical service head Dr Samrat Bhattacharjee. Dr Bhattacharjee, who did his MBBS from Silchar Medical College and Hospital in 1984, shared some of his experiences with a group of scribes here today and admitted that regular meditation lessen the danger of terminal diseases like cancer.

At present at least 50 lakh people are suffering from various types of cancer in urban India, though there is no specific data on the rural sector, maintaining this Dr Bhattacharjee who is also a member of European Society of Medical Oncology as well as member of the Indo-American Cancer Association said mental anxiety, mainly in urban people, play a major role in the growth of brain cancer.

Dr Bhattacharjee informed that in Bangalore Institute Oncology, they had installed some highly sophisticated machines for diagnosis as well as treatment of cancer patients. Cyberknife, a German made machine for detecting cancer cell had been installed at Bangalore Institute Oncology. He further said that constant experimentation in cancer treatment had led to the invention of a new technology by which a patient could be recovered by a single dose of chemotherapy.

He said Bangalore Institute Oncology had 16 treatment centres in the country and almost equal number of information centre.

He now wished to open an information centre in Silchar with video conference facility and if they found it economically viable the Bangalore Institute Oncology might open a treatment centre in Silchar which involves at least Rs 50 crore for procuring machineries. Bangalore Institute Oncology has an information centre in Hojai, informing this Dr Bhattacharjee said he would approach the Asom Government for setting up a highly sophisticated cancer institute in the State, as the entire region is a cancer prone area.

At present Bangalore Institute Oncology is planning to set up a treatment centre in Kolkata. He said an NGO called Health Care Global Enterprise, with which he is actively associated, provides a share of their profits for the cancer patients who could not afford to avail modern treatment which is obviously very expensive.

Even very poor patients are treated free of cost. Dr Bhattacharjee expressed hope that the state government would take positive initiative for setting up a branch of Bangalore Institute Oncology. THE SENTINEL