Delhi govt to seek deemed varsity status for DSCI

Updated on: Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Delhi Govt will seek deemed university status for its premier Delhi State Cancer Institute which now has treatment facilities on par with best of the hospitals in the country offering treatment to cancer patients, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said today.
Dedicating the second phase expansion of the Delhi State Cancer Institute (DSCI), an autonomous institution under Government of Delhi, Dikshit said the institute has emerged as a premier cancer care hospital in a short period of time as it was established only in the year 2006.

The Chief Minister said latest generation city scanner with RT simulation, fully digital x-ray unit with digital fluoroscopy, ultra-modern digital mammography and high end Ultrasonography have now been made available in the hospital under the second phase expansion of the hospital.

Health department officials claimed that DSCI has become first hospital in the country to commission these high-end instruments.

Along with these sophisticated instruments, a state-of-the-art communication system, a modern laboratory, and patient management system have been introduced in the hospital under the second phase modernisation.

The officials said the hospital now has the most advanced surgical facilities as well as treatment facilities such as brachytherapy system, intra-operative radiotherapy and nuclear medicine set up.

Dikshit said Government will seek deemed university status for the institute.

Complimenting the institute, Dikshit said the DSCI was set up with an aim to provide best medical care to the cancer patients in the region with latest concepts and technology matching with the best of international standards and it has been successfully in living up to the expectation.

"With latest introduction of high standard treatment, the disease is no more incurable," she said, adding that "earlier there were no facilities for comprehensive treatment of cancer in any other hospital under the city government."

Officials said around 26,000 patients were offered treatment in the year 2006 while the number rose to 1,61,000 in 2009.

Around 600 patients daily attend the OPD and around 200 patients receive radiation treatment per day at the hospital.

She stated that the Institute has planned to open its separate units at Chhatarpur and Madipur to provide seamless health facilities to the people in these areas.

Delhi govt to seek deemed varsity status for DSCI

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