Lucknow: UP government is collaborating with Cankids, a society that works with children with cancer, to train doctors to detect cancer and to ensure that there is provision for medicines and tests available in hospitals.
Aparna Upadhyay, mission director of the National Health Mission and Cankids chairperson Dr Poonam Bagai signed an MoU in the presence of chief secretary DS Mishra on Wednesday.
The CS said that there are about 14,800 children below the age of 19 years who are afflicted with cancer in UP.
“It is the government’s aim to ensure that a child with cancer gets treatment in the initial phase itself and they get the best care possible. Information like where one is to go for treatment, its diagnosis etc will be crucial for this,” he said.
Principal secretary, health, Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma said that Cankids would carry out a mapping of government and private hospitals which provide cancer treatment with district hospitals so that children coming there with cancer symptoms can be referred there. Mission director Aparna Upadhyay said that doctors from mobile health teams and field staff will be provided with capacity building training.
Cankid’s co-founder Sonal Sharma said that under the ‘You are not Alone’ programme, it is working with KGMU, SGPGI and RML in Lucknow.
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