NEW DELHI: Varanasi will soon have a new state of the art cancer care centre, providing relief to lakhs of patients who have to make rounds of metros in search of proper medicare facilities.The new cancer care centre - courtesy an initiative between cancer hospitals, led by the Tata Memorial Trust - will help patients reach the right doctor quicker in a country where patients spend months before getting the right diagnosis and treatment.According to an official sources, a detailed plan for the construction of Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (MPMM) Cancer Centre, which will be set up on the premises of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU), has been carried out.The hospital, estimated to come up at a cost of Rs 580 crore, will be constructed by Tata Trust who has also offered to provide equipment to the hospital.Interestingly, registration of cancer patients has already started in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi district. The registration would aid the identification of the occurrence of different types of cancers in the region, the official source said.It also said that the centre is aimed to cater to the health needs of about 40 lakh people of the region.The patients, at the centre, will be treated with a new approach known as "patient-centric care" which will include all the facilities being used at the highest level for treatment of patients suffering from cancer.Mumbai's Tata Memorial hospital has already identified over 15 cancer specialists, including the existing specialists from BHU and railway hospital, in enhancing manpower for cancer care in the region. Meanwhile, over 50 nurses and technicians are also being trained for the cause.The report on the types of cancer in Varanasi region is likely to be ready by March 2018. Early indications are endorsing that gall stones and gall bladder cancer are quite common in this region, sources said.To understand and analyse the prevalent causes, Tata Memorial Centre has mooted a consortium of gall bladder cancer with collaborators from Lucknow and Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and Guwahati and Silchar in Assam.The next step would be to test a preventive strategy since this cancer is believed to be fatal.Tata Trust plans to handover hospital building with all the requisite furniture and other essential medical equipment to MPMM Cancer Centre by December 2018. A tripartite MoU in this connection is being signed between DoAE-TMC, IMS-BHU and Tata Trust.Remaining construction involving the offices, resident doctors' hostel, faculty residences, lodge, canteen etc., would be done by Tata Memorial Centre.Moreover, the cancer hospital of the Indian Railways has been taken over for redevelopment and Tata Memorial Hospital will make it functional by March 2018. This hospital at the railway building will look after leukemia and lymphoma patients.

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