Nikita Mehra: Access to timely cancer treatment initiation in India
Nikita Mehra, Senior Associate Professor at Cancer Institute (WIA), recently shared on X:
“Our paper titled ‘Access to timely cancer treatment initiation in India’ published in the Lancet Regional Health, SE Asia led by Shankar Prinja, Health Economist, PGIMER Chandigarh, was referred to by the Hon’ble Narendra Modi during Mann Ki Baat.
Message from Shankar Prinja:
The excerpt of the text of the Hon’ble PM Narendra Modi speech, which is at 23-26 minutes time.
‘Friends, another example of what we can achieve with our awareness and determination is the fight against cancer.
A study of the world-renowned Medical Journal Lancet indeed raises a lot of hope. According to this Journal, now the chances of starting cancer treatment on time in India have increased a lot.
Timely treatment means starting the treatment of a cancer patient within 30 days and the ‘Ayushman Bharat Yojana’ has played a big role in this. Because of this scheme, 90 percent of cancer patients have been able to start their treatment on time.
This has happened because earlier, due to lack of money, poor patients used to shy away from getting tested for cancer and its treatment.
Now, the Ayushman Bharat Yojana has become a big support for them. Now they are coming forward to get themselves treated.
The Ayushman Bharat Yojana has reduced the financial problems in cancer treatment to a great extent.
It is equally good that today, people have become more aware than ever before about timely treatment of cancer.
This achievement is as much of our healthcare system, doctors, nurses and technical staff as it is of all of you, my citizen brothers and sisters.
With everyone’s efforts, the resolve to defeat cancer has become even stronger.
The credit for this success goes to all those who have contributed significantly in spreading awareness.
There is only one mantra to fight cancer – Awareness, Action and Assurance.
Awareness means awareness of cancer and its symptoms, Action means timely diagnosis and treatment, Assurance means the belief that every help is available for patients.
Come, let us together take this fight against cancer forward rapidly and help as many patients as possible.
CC: Vikram Mathews, Vincent Rajkumar, Soumya Swaminathan, K. VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser, Govt. of India.”
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