C T Online Desk: The number of cancer patients is increasing at an alarming rate. Although the patient is increasing, the disease has not been detected for the treatment of the disease.
Although the cancer ward of Chittagong Medical College Hospital and Chittagong Mother and Children Hospital, the medical system did not spread much.
As a result, patients have to go to the neighboring country of India in addition to Dhaka.
Therefore, the demand for time was to form a cancer unit full of Chittagong. To make cancer treatment more accessible, the government adopted a 100 -bed cancer unit at the Medical College Hospital in Dhaka, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Sylhet, Mymensingh, Barisal and Khulna.
The project DPP (Development Project Proposal) was approved in 2019 in the ECNEC meeting . The project is in process of implementing