Coal India provides Home for Cancer patients and Relatives
KOLKATA. Shri Piyush Goyal, the Minister of State (IC),for Power,Coal, New & Renewable Energy, inaugurated “Premashraya” a home for Cancer patients and their relatives of Tata Medical Center, at Rajarhat , Newtown in Kolkata today. The 10-story building will enable 525 persons, only Cancer patients and their relatives from outside Kolkata and getting treatment at Tata Medical Centre, to stay there at a nominal charge.
While speaking on the occasion, Shri Goyal announced that Coal India will set up 5 (five) Cancer Detection Centres, one each at the Coal Mining belts of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh for the benefit of the people staying in the remote areas facing lot of troubles to get access to quality treatment for critical ailment like cancer.
Shri Sutirtha Bhattacharya, the Chairman, Coal India Ltd. said, Coal India is happy to be associated with such a noble and humane endeavour.Premashraya, a home away from home, stands at a stone`s throw from the Tata Medical Centre at Rajarhat, New Town. The building, apart from having facilities for lodging of patients and their relatives, also has palliative care cubicles, child care centres, counseling rooms, physiotherapy unit and an auditorium.
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