If everything goes right, a cancer hospital for children will come up in Jatni, on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar. The state government will construct the hospital and Dharmshala-cum-Guest House and then hand it over to the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC).
The Commissioner-cum-secretary to the Odisha Health and Family Welfare department, Shalini Pandit on Friday informed about the government’s decision while responding to a letter from the Director of Tata Memorial Centre dated October 3, 2023.
In her letter, she said that the state government is pleased to accord in-principle approval to extend support for the establishment of a Dharmshala-cum-Guest House and a dedicated Paediatric Cancer facility in Jatni.
The state government will construct 2 blocks of Dharmshala-cum-Guest House (about 2 lakh square feet) in the vicinity of the hospital with an estimated cost of about Rs. 12O crore and hand over the same to the TMC, Mumbai. This construction work is to be undertaken by the Works Department, Govt. of Odisha, in consultation with the TMC team, she said in her letter.
She also said that the state government will support funding of Rs 15O crore ( Rs 80 crore for the building and Rs 70 crore for the equipment) for the construction of a state-of-the-art paediatric cancer facility. This amount will be placed with TMC, Mumbai for the purpose.