Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute is a cancer care hospital and research institute and one of the 27

regional cancer centre Regional Cancer Centres (RCCs) are cancer care hospitals and research institutes operating in India under the joint control and funding of the Government of India and the respective state governments. The name 'regional' because each of these insti ...

s in

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. It is located in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

near

Jatin Das Park metro station Jatin Das Park is a station of the Kolkata Metro located on Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Road at Hazra More, Kalighat. History Construction The station Structure Jatin Das Park is underground metro station, situated on the Kolkata Metro Line 1 o ...

at Hazra More. It was formally inaugurated by Prof. Madam J.Curie on 2 January 1950, as ''Chittaranjan Cancer Hospital'', named after

Chittaranjan Das Chittaranjan Das (5 November 1870 – 16 June 1925), popularly called ''Deshbandhu'' (Friend of the Nation), was an Indian freedom fighter, political activist and lawyer during the Indian independence movement and founder-leader of the Swar ...

, who donated land and property for the cause. This campus( first campus) also serves as a cutting-edge cancer research centre.

Second campus

On 19 August 2020 the institute started its OPD services from its state of the art 460 bedded campus at Rajarhat. The campus at Newtown was built under the Union Ministry of Health. The building is equipped with all the latest facilities for cancer treatment including nuclear medicine, endoscopy suite, modern brachytherapy units, 650 beds (or 460 beds), accommodations for relatives of patients, and for doctors. Rs 1,000 crore was spent for this project and it was inaugurated by Prime Minister

Narendra Modi Narendra Damodardas Modi (; born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament from ...

on 7 January 2022. More than ₹530 crore has been spent, out of which around ₹400 crore have been provided by the Union government and the rest by the

Government of West Bengal The Government of West Bengal also known as the West Bengal Government, is the subnational government of the Indian state of West Bengal , created by the National Constitution as the state's legislative, executive and judicial authority. The ...

References

External links

Official Website
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