Kerala Chief Minister, Shri Pinarayi Vijayan today announced that the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) at Thiruvananthapuram has started a cancer treatment centre at the Kanyakumari District Hospital for the benefit of cancer patients in Kanyakumari and surrounding districts who usually depend on RCC, Thiruvananthapuram for their treatment.

Giving details, the Chief Minister said there are currently 560 patients from that area undergoing treatment at RCC, Thiruvananthapuram but they are not able to reach here during the lockdown period. To address this issue, RCC, Thiruvananthapuram in association with the Tamil Nadu Health Department and with the support of Tamil Nadu Government has started this cancer treatment centre at Kanyakumari.

It may be recalled that the Kerala Government had set up 22 Cancer treatment centres across all the 14 districts in the State in association with the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) at Thiruvananthapuram. This would enable cancer patients to continue their follow-up treatment including chemotherapy at their nearest Cancer treatment centre during this Covid period.

Minister of Health & Social Justice, Smt K K Shailaja; Revenue Minister, Shri E Chandrasekharan, and Chief Secretary, Shri Tom Jose IAS were also present during the media briefing.