Cachar Cancer Hospital gets aid from LICI

Correspondent
SILCHAR, May 24– Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre got a cheque of Rs 5 lakh for its blood bank from Life Insurance Corporation of India, Silchar Division recently. K C Khora ,senior divisional manager handed over the cheque to the director Dr Ravi Kanan recently. Moreover, the LICI Golden Jubilee Foundation sanctioned a total grant of Rs 17,000 to the blood bank for its name plate.

Jyotindra Chandra Dutta, chairman and Dr Chinmoy Choudhury general secretary of the hospital society thanked LICI authorities for their help and assured that the grant will be meaningfully utilised in the interest of the people. Governing body of the society member prof Dilip Kumar Dey recalled their earlier contribution

Khora said that LICI Silchar division very recently addressed the meeting and said that LICI was the biggest financial institution devoted to the services of society. Dr Ravi Kanan, a famous cancer specialist and director of the hospital, expressed his indebtness to LICI for coming forward to meet a genuine need of poor and suffering patients.

BK Gupta(P& IR) manager, the man behind the co-ordinator between Cachar Cancer Hospital Society and the LICI Golden Jubilee Foundation, spoke on the various social schemes of LICI Golden Jubilee Foundation and various social scheme that LICI had launched in the region. It had encouraged meritorious students through some its programmes, he revealed.

The creation of LICI blood bank unit will cater to the needs of large number of people coming for treatment from different parts of Northeast India and others and will certainly reinforce LIC’s cordial relationship with public.

Further, LICI and its employees’ association had been very kind to the cancer hospital project all through. The LICI Golden Jubilee Foundation’s financial assistance will be a landmark in the history of development of the Cancer Hospital and Research Centre.

Joint secretary of the society Kalyan Chakraborty, Bijoy Kr Das, Mihir Kar Purkayastha, Dr Gopal Dutta, Dr Rajendra Kr Baruah, Seetha Lakshnmi Kannan, Dr Moloy Chakraborty, GB members, many specialists, and doctors, were present in the meeting. ASSAM TRIBUNE