Prasanta Kumar Dash
Bhubaneswar, Oct 10: While it was quite impractical and unaffordable to reach out the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, the one-stop destination for the underprivileged Cancer patients, which is at least 1900 Kilometer far apart from the mainland of Odisha, Ratan Tata appeared as a god for the distressed ones.
Visionary Ratan Tata promised a free but sophisticated cancer care centre here in Odisha’s Cuttack to serve the people suffering from the fatal and malignant disease.
Ratan Tata announced a modern cancer care hospital at Cuttack, to mitigate the woes of the people of Odisha who are almost ruined due to the deadly disease while keen to curing their dear ones
Following this, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Tata Sons Chairman emeritus Ratan Tata laid the foundation stone of the Odisha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre at Ratagarh-Nuasahi under Barang tehsil limit in the Cuttack district on 17th February 2019.
With it, Ratan Tata dreamt of a Tata's state of-the-art Cancer Hospital for Odisha’s rural poor, who could neither afford to visit the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai to avail free treatment due to their penury nor they could avail the much expensive radio therapy and chemotherapy procedures, essentially prescribed to heal the ailments up.
The Tata-collaboration Research Centre in Odisha aims at providing comprehensive, accessible and high end cancer care free of cost.
The Cancer hospital that's grooming up in collaboration with the Odisha government, will be a milestone of Ratan Tata's mission 'service to mankind is service to God', who died today beyond business but much as a philanthropist and humanist.
