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 The
Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (CCHRC) is a
50-bedded centre located at Meherpur in Silchar town. It serves
the population of the Barak river valley that includes the
districts of Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi, the adjacent
district of North Cachar Hills and the neighbouring states of
Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura. The hospital sees about 2000 new
patients annually. A large percentage of the patients that come
to the hospital seeking care are from the lower economic strata
owing to their nominal incomes. Most of them are daily
agricultural labourer and tea garden workers. The hospital
consistently makes efforts to serve all its patients,
irrespective of their economic status, with high quality care.
It provides the care at extremely low costs or for free to these
patients.
The
hospital offers facilities for chemotherapy, radiation therapy
and surgery. It has facilities for endoscopies, ultrasound and
Compuerized Tomography(C.T.Scan)T.
It has a telecobalt unit, a surgical suite and a chemotherapy
ward for day care and in patients. A multidisciplinary and multi
specialty tumour board functions every day. Prevention and
palliation are high priority activities at the hospital.
The
hospital was established in 1996 by the vision of a group of
social workers drawn from different professions who formed the
Cachar Cancer Hospital Society (CCHS). The society now has
nearly 75 members.
Our Objectives:
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To
develop the Cachar Cancer Hospital into a comprehensive
cancer centre and state of the art tertiary level referral
offering treatment to all irrespective of the patient's
socioeconomic status;
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To
develop educational programs for medical and paramedical
personnel in the various subspecialties of oncology;
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To
contribute to basic and clinical research and to get
involved in multi-centre trials.
Accomplishment
of these objectives, with the larger objective of full-fledged
cancer care in the Northeastern region would need human
resources, development of departments and equipment.
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