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Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated a Day-Care Cancer Facility at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government Medical College, Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh.
The facility is being developed with technical support from the Tata Memorial Centre, the cancer institution run under the Department of Atomic Energy.
It follows a Cancer Gap Care Analysis by TMC specialists from 5 to 7 June 2026 and a screening camp that identified 586 cancer patients and 254 suspected cases.
The Vidisha plan covers medical, surgical and radiation oncology, pathology, cancer registries and palliative care, with a Linear Accelerator facility announced by the Madhya Pradesh government.
Dr Jitendra Singh cited projections of about 20 lakh new cancer cases a year in India by 2030 as the reason to take cancer care beyond metropolitan centres.
India's largest comprehensive cancer centre — treatment, research, training and outreach; set up in 1941 by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and brought under the Department of Atomic Energy in 1962; runs a hub-and-spoke national network
Parent department of TMC; funds cancer care as part of the peaceful applications of atomic energy, including radiation oncology; functions directly under the Prime Minister
Network formed in 2012 to standardise cancer care, pool training and enable research; grew from 17 centres at inception to over 380 member organisations
Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer — TMC's research, training and clinical trials arm, set up in 2002; trains the Vidisha doctors and nursing officers
Bring chemotherapy and follow-up care to district hospitals so patients need not travel to metro centres
Key: 200 centres announced for 2025-26, with all district hospitals targeted within three years; the same Budget exempted 36 lifesaving drugs from basic customs duty
Prevention, early detection and management of NCDs including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke
Key: Launched in 2010 as NPCDCS and renamed NP-NCD on 5 May 2023; provides population-based screening of persons above 30 for hypertension, diabetes and oral, breast and cervical cancers through NCD clinics at district and community health centre level
Cashless secondary and tertiary hospitalisation cover for poor and vulnerable families, cancer treatment included
Key: Launched 23 September 2018 at Ranchi; Rs 5 lakh per family per year; implemented by the National Health Authority; extended in 2024 to all citizens aged 70 and above irrespective of income
Extend TMC-standard cancer care to under-served regions on a hub-and-spoke model
Key: Units at Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Sangrur and Mullanpur/New Chandigarh (Punjab), Varanasi (with MPMMCC), Muzaffarpur (Bihar), and Dr Bhubaneswar Borooah Cancer Institute, Guwahati (Assam)
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General Awareness > Government Schemes and Institutions
The "PM-ABHIM" scheme is related to which sector?
Answer: Health Infrastructure
A facility delivering chemotherapy and follow-up infusion services without overnight admission, typically at a district hospital.
A registry recording all cancer cases in a defined geographic population, used to estimate incidence rates.
The machine that delivers external beam radiotherapy by accelerating electrons to produce high-energy X-rays.