Haryana: AIIMS Jhajjar ready to provide cancer treatment at affordable cost

The National Cancer Institute of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Jhajjar is ready to provide high-end treatment for cancer patients at an affordable cost.

The hospital is charging Rs 140 per day for food and daycare facilities and Rs 700 for therapy. The hospital has completed its first phase and is ready to provide state-of-the-art facilities.

Dr Alok Thakar, who is a Professor of Otolaryngology and Head- Neck Surgery, at AIIMS, said,
"This is a futuristic cancer institution that is developed for every individual cancer patient with an India-centric focus. We have facilities for all cancer cases, totally state of the art as it is for
radiation for medical oncology, for surgery. Our team with surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation therapists everybody we have more importantly facilities for the care of patients."

"We have the lab which was donated to us by the Infosys foundation wherein we have the facilities for patients to stay in this hospital when they are having their treatment with their families," Dr Thakar added.

Highlighting that the hospital is getting community support also for blood donation, Thakar said, "We are a unique hospital from the point of view that though cancer treatment can require a fair amount of blood requirements when patients need to be transfused blood. Our local community has supported us so well that rarely do the families of the patients have to donate blood."

"The donations that we get from our local community are so good, obviously supported by the
enthusiasm of our colleagues who have been motivating them and it is very unusual for patients to need to donate blood for their relatives. They can focus on the care of their relatives and we look after the other aspects," he added