Award for Cachar Cancer Hospital

Special Correspondent

SILCHAR, Dec 12: The observance of ‘World Human Rights Day’ by Intertiol Human Rights Association, North East Chapter, was not only confined to discussions and debates but also remembering and honouring various persolities of distinctions and organizations. Among them was Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Meherpur, which within two decades of its eventful existence has made a mark tiolly as well as intertiolly for being a self-sustaining treatment center for cancer patients.

 Not only that, despite all the constraints of resources and an NGO without any supportive stand of the Centre or the state, Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre has been pulling up fincial backup from diverse donors, contributors and from all sections of society. It has all the updated and sophisticated machinery, tools and equipments to take better care of the patients who flock to this centre not only from Barak Valley but also from the northeastern states, besides Myanmar.

 Under the leadership of eminent onco-surgeon, Dr. Ravi Kann, a team of dedicated doctors and medical staff as well as nurses, this Hospital has found a place among the best centres of cancer treatment in the country. Cancer experts and physicians from the reputed cancer institutes of the country as well as abroad visit the Hospital and render their services with the motto ‘service to man is service to god’. Kalyan Chakrabory, senior administrative officer, received the memento on behalf of Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre.

 Kalyan Chakraborty was honoured for his relentless services to the patients from the moment they are admitted to the different stages of their treatment and discharge. In the case of those incurable, the palliative care is the only way out and even in this stage, Chakraborty stands by a patient. Not only can that he be contacted on his mobile number round the clock.