Cachar Cancer Hospital & 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 neighboring 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 Computerized Tomography(C.T.Scan)T. It has a telecobalt unit, a surgical suite & a chemotherapy ward for day care and in patients. A multidisciplinary & multi specialty tumour board functions every day. Prevention & 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:

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;

To develop educational programs for medical and paramedical personnel in the various subspecialties of oncology;

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.