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A small implicit 2 years aft enactment connected Comprehensive Cancer Care Centre attached to the Government Medical College Hospital, Tiruppur, began, astatine the inaugural of Rotary and Public Welfare Trust, Tiruppur, nether the Namakku Naame Scheme, the installation is each acceptable for commissioning successful the coming days.
The 100-bedded 50,000 sq. ft. installation established astatine a outgo of ₹60 crore is equipped with operation of bunker structure, Medical Linear Accelerator (LINAC-truebeam-dual energy), and interior radiation attraction - Brachytherapy, among different captious equipment.
The LINAC instrumentality was purchased done the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation, it is learnt.
Public backing of ₹5 crore arsenic the one-third stock for the task carried retired nether Public-Private Partnership was mobilised by the Tiruppur Rotary Public Welfare Trust.
Accompanied by A. Muruganathan, past Rotary politician and past IMA (Indian Medical Association) president; S. Meera, Joint Director of Medical and Rural Health Services; and R. Manonmani, Dean, Government Medical College, Tiruppur, District Collector Manish Narnaware conducted an inspection recently.
The facility, authoritative sources said, volition beryllium inaugurated connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026) by Minister for Information and Publicity M.P. Saminathan.
The adjacent signifier enlargement astatine an expenditure of ₹40 crore volition diagnostic PET - CT (positron emanation tomography–computed tomography scan), and captious laboratory equipment, sources added.
