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Civic Body Plans To Raise Health AllocationBy akansha, Section Health
PIMPRI-CHINCHWAD Cyberknife purchase under consideration: commissioner
The residents of PimpriChinchwad are likely to get something to cheer on World Cancer Day on Thursday, as the civic body is poised to increase its health budget. The increase is likely to reflect in the annual civic budget, to be presented by Municipal Commissioner Asheesh Sharma in a week. The increase in budgetary allocation is aimed at improving facilities at eight civic hospitals, primarily for treatment of cancer and swine flu. Sharma said there was a need to take a relook at the allocation for health but claimed that the PimpriChinchwad Municipal Corporation was doing better than the Pune Municipal Corporation on the health front. He also pointed out that cancer hospitals are set up primarily by private initiative. For years, the PCMC has been allocating around five per cent of the total budget for health. Of the total Rs 64 crore last year, Rs 27 crore was marked for salary of staff while Rs 14 crore went to the 750bed Yeshwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital. "This means the PCMC spends only Rs 23 crore annually for health of its 15 lakh citizens, which is woefully inadequate," said civic activist Shridhar Chalka.
PCMC medical chief Dr Nagkumar Kunachgi said the civic body purchased only the basic drugs. Source: The Indian Express By Manoj More Civic body plans to raise health allocation Click On "Full Story" For More....
Both Kunachgi and PCMC medical director Dr Rajshekhar Iyer maintained that health was the responsibility of the state government.
Corporator Maruti Bhapkar said crores of rupees of tax-paying citizens were being wasted on making and remaking roads. "Instead of indiscriminately spending crores on roads or on some unwanted projects, the PCMC should improve the health facilities. Neither is there a cancer hospital nor a burns ward. A burn victim has to travel 15 km to Pune to get treatment." Kunachgi said the YCM hospital has chemotherapy facility, but the costly medicines should be purchased by patients themselves. Corporator Babu Nair alleged that the civic body showed little interest in making advanced facilities available to patients. "A proposal had come up for Cyberknife, the world's first non-invasive wholebody, robotic radiosurgery system invented by John Adler, but the PCMC showed no interest."
However, Sharma said the civic body is looking at the possibility of purchasing Cyberknife machine.
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