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Patna,(BiharTimes): Bihar has recorded the third highest number of cancer deaths in the country, after Uttar Pradesh and Maharshtra in the year 2011. It might be number one state given the fact that many patients from state die in hospital elsewhere in the country. |
The figure of National Cancer Registry Programme of the Indian Council of Medical Research, said that 43,864 people in the state have died of the disease till November 2011.
Health department officials said over 40,000 new cancer cases have been diagnosed in the state in the first 11 months of the year.
At Mahavir Cancer Sansthan (MCS), the largest cancer hospital in Bihar, 26,000 new cases have been recorded this year, the second highest from any hospital in the country.
Like elsewhere in the country oral cancer is the most common form of the disease among men. About 62 per cent of patients here are women who suffer from cervical and breast cancer.
Since a large number of patients go to Mumbai, Delhi and Vellore for treatment, according to Sansthan’s director, J K Singh, the real number of deaths and cancer cases may be much bigger than what is estimated by the NCRP.
At Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) and Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) the influx of patients is very high.
IGIMS, which has a cancer unit, runs with only three oncologists even as around 75,000 patients come to its OPD for screening every year. A plan to upgrade the centre at an estimated cost of Rs 21 crore has been in limbo for the past one year because of government apathy.
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