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Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Cancer Research Institute

last updated Sep 27, 2011

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Himadri Memorial Cancer Welfare Trust
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
2004
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
20-60% (lower to lower-middle), 60-90% (middle to upper-middle)

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Government
Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
Donor
Summary: 

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Cancer Research Institute is a hospital specializing in delivering low-cost care.

Key program components: 

In all of eastern India, there were only two cancer centers; one is the government-supported Chittaranjan National Cancer Centre, and other is the independent Cancer Care and Welfare Home, Thakurpukur. With the idea of providing comprehensive cancer care at an affordable cost for the middle class people of Eastern India, a group of doctors decided, in 2002, to develop a new cancer hospital. As a funding source, they established the Himadri Memorial Cancer Welfare Trust. Under the medical direction of Dr. Ashis Mukhopadhyay, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Cancer Research Institute opened in 2004. Since then, Mukhopadhyay and his fellow doctors at the institute have devoted themselves to making their facility the leading cancer hospital in eastern India.

Today, the Bose Institute, with 70 beds, offers a comprehensive cancer program including epidemiology, prevention and treatment. This is where rural and district hospitals refer their cancer patients. The hospital also sponsors awareness programs in rural areas of West Bengal on thalassemia, as well as cancers of the breast, cervix and mouth. The hospital receives some government funding as well as support from local and regional organizations and international cancer societies.

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