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• Front-Line Workers were trained to spread awareness
about risk factors of cancer and risk-reducing behaviour
and nudge people to get themselves screened for oral,
breast and cervical cancers. E orts to control the
consumption of tobacco were made to reduce the risk
of oral cancer.

GOING FORWARD

• Inauguration of the Ranchi Cancer Hospital and
Research Centre (RCHRC).

• Upscaling the Public Health Programme in multiple
districts of Andhra Pradesh.
CHALLENGES FACED

• Empaneling the hospital at Ranchi under state and
• Administrative delays in obtaining mandatory licences
central government health schemes to ensure
and compliances.
a ordable treatment.

• Low acceptance of breast and cervical screening among
• Inducting a new batch of postgraduate doctors and
the target demographic.
nurses for the ‘Fellowships Programme in Oncology’ and
‘Nursing Fellowship Programme’, respectively.
• Lack of instruments and consumables provided by
the State Administration in Health and Wellness
Centres, due to which the frontline workers are
unable to carry out screenings.

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