No more blind spots: Telangana launches cancer registry to track every case

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Health Minister C. Damodar Raja Narasimha launching the crab  portal during World Health Day celebrations successful  Hyderabad connected  Tuesday.

Health Minister C. Damodar Raja Narasimha launching the crab portal during World Health Day celebrations successful Hyderabad connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: SIDDHANT THAKUR

Until now, a idiosyncratic diagnosed with crab successful Telangana would not beryllium captured wrong a single, real-time system, leaving the State without a wide knowing of the illness burden. This spread volition beryllium addressed aft the State launched its ain crab registry, becoming 1 of the fewer States successful the state which volition systematically grounds each crab case.

The registry was launched by Health Minister C. Damodar Raja Narasimha on with Health Secretary Christina Z. Chongthu and different elder officials connected the juncture of World Health Day.

Explaining the functioning of the registry, Commissioner of Health and Family Welfare, Sangeetha Satyanarayana said that imaginable crab cases would beryllium identified done aggregate introduction points, including screening programmes conducted crossed the State. These suspected cases would past beryllium referred to authorities wide hospitals for confirmation.

The inaugural is built astir a hub-and-spoke model, successful which tertiary centres specified arsenic MNJ Institute of Oncology and Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) successful Hyderabad volition relation arsenic hubs, portion territory crab attraction centres volition service arsenic spokes. Patients are expected to person archetypal chemotherapy oregon aesculapian absorption astatine these hub institutions, with consequent attraction sessions perchance shifted to territory centres if question becomes hard and patients opt for section care.

“The registry would efficaciously make an atlas of crab successful Telangana, mapping some the types of cancers and their geographical distribution. This would assistance place patterns, specified arsenic the prevalence of circumstantial cancers successful definite districts, thereby aiding probe and improving illness management,” she said.

Health Minister C. Damodar Raja Narasimha launching Trauma Care Policy during World Health Day celebrations astatine  Ravindra Bharathi. Health Secretary Christina Z. Chongthu, Hyderabad District Collector Hari Chandana, Rajya Sabha MP Anil Kumar Yadav, NIMS Director Dr. N. Bheerappa and TVVP Commissioner Dr. Ajaya Kumar are besides  seen, successful  Hyderabad, connected  Tuesday.

Health Minister C. Damodar Raja Narasimha launching Trauma Care Policy during World Health Day celebrations astatine Ravindra Bharathi. Health Secretary Christina Z. Chongthu, Hyderabad District Collector Hari Chandana, Rajya Sabha MP Anil Kumar Yadav, NIMS Director Dr. N. Bheerappa and TVVP Commissioner Dr. Ajaya Kumar are besides seen, successful Hyderabad, connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: SIDDHANT THAKUR

At the aforesaid event, the Health Minister besides launched the ‘Trauma Care Policy for the State of Telangana’, aimed astatine decentralising exigency aesculapian response. The argumentation focuses connected strengthening the archetypal enactment of attraction and reducing unit connected tertiary hospitals. Measures nether the argumentation see mapping ambulance networks, upgrading assemblage wellness centres (CHCs) into trauma attraction facilities, and ensuring that mishap victims person timely attraction person to the tract of incidents.

In addition, the authorities introduced online portals for implementing the Surrogacy Act, Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Act and the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act. These portals are intended to amended transparency and accountability by digitising processes that person truthful acold remained fragmented and mostly manual, according to Ms. Satyanarayana.

Published - April 07, 2026 06:41 p.m. IST

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