CM asks US doctors to set up cancer research centre
Wednesday, 14/08/2013
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Chandigarh : Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday offered all support and cooperation to the Indian-origin US cancer experts Dr Inderbir Gill and Dr Parkash Gill for setting up a research centre for ‘New Cancer Drug Development and Manufacture’ facility in the state.
An assurance to this effect was given by Badal to the visiting doctors, accompanied by the Cabinet Minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon, who called on him here, this morning.
Taking part in the deliberations, the doctors assured the Chief Minister that they were committed to establish world’s best ‘Cancer Drug Development and Genetic Testing’ facility in Punjab as they had a long experience in this field. They claimed that their proven track of expertise and experience in the field of cancer research would help them to create new genetic testing for diagnosis and treatment of cancer in the state, probably the first-of-its-kind in the country.
Chief Minister apprised them about the laudable steps taken by the state government in curbing the deadly menace of cancer by setting up of super specialty cancer hospitals at Bathinda and Faridkot besides upgrading the government hospitals to provide the best healthcare facilities to the cancer patients in the state. He also apprised them that the Chief Minister’s Cancer Relief Fund has been created for the timely treatment of cancer patients.
Vadra land deals: Badal seeks probe by Supreme Court judge
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday sought an inquiry by a sitting Supreme Court Judge into Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra’s controversial land deals in Haryana.
Badal said though he was not aware of the facts of the case, the government should order an independent probe if senior Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka had raised serious irregularities in Vadra-DLF land deals.
“There is no harm in conducting an enquiry whenever there is any dispute,” expressed Badal, while stating that he and his family members had also faced several enquiries to come clean on all the allegations levelled against them.
Indian-origin US cancer experts Dr Inderbir Gill and Dr Parkash Gill meeting Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in Chandigarh on Tuesday.
