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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Parliamentary panel calls for free cancer treatment -GS Mudur

Parliamentary panel calls for free cancer treatment -GS Mudur

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published Published on Dec 12, 2022   modified Modified on Dec 12, 2022

-The Telegraph

Committee asks govt to take steps to strengthen radiotherapy facilities in the country, expressing concerns about inadequate infrastructure

A parliamentary panel has asked the Centre to provide free cancer treatment to middle-class households through a government-funded health insurance scheme and to cap cancer diagnostics and treatment services in government and private hospitals.

The parliamentary standing committee on health has also called on the government to take steps to strengthen radiotherapy facilities in the country, expressing concerns about inadequate infrastructure and long waiting times that are contributing to poor cancer survival.

The panel, in a report on cancer management in the country and tabled in Parliament earlier this week, asked the health ministry to include middle-class households among the beneficiaries of the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana (PMJAY) for cancer treatment.

The PMJAY, launched in 2018, provides poor households with hospitalisation cover of up to Rs 500,000 per year. The panel said expanding the list of beneficiaries to offer middle-class households treatment for cancer could help avert middle-class families of cancer patients “from going into penury.”

The report comes amid mounting evidence from medical studies across the country that cancer treatment costs can lead to the accumulation of debts, poor compliance with prescribed therapy, and household members entering the job market prematurely to help with living costs.

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The Telegraph, 12 December, 2022, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/parliamentary-panel-calls-for-free-cancer-treatment/cid/1903346


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