HLL Lifecare ties up with Tata Memorial Centre

Thiruvananthapuram: HLL Lifecare, a Central public sector undertaking based here, has teamed up with Tata Memorial Centre for constructing a modern women and children cancer hospital at Parel in Mumbai.

The two parties signed a memorandum of understanding whereby they assigned the project management consultancy to the infrastructure development division of HLL Lifecare.

Hadron beam facility

The construction of the Rs 350-crore hospital is expected to be completed within 30 months.

The project will include a hadron beam facility, which an official spokesman said is the first of its kind in India and only the 12th in the world, that offers advanced and precise proton therapy for cancer patients.

Hadrons help irradiate cancerous tumours with lesser damage to surrounding healthy tissues than X-rays are thought to cause in conventional radiation therapy.

Hindustan Lifecare is proud to be associated with Tata Memorial Centre, a spokesman quoted M Ayyappan, Chairman and Managing Director, as saying.

Primary care

Commissioned in 1941, Tata Memorial Centre is among India’s most comprehensive centres for treatment, education, research and prevention of cancer.

It attracts around 43,000 new patients every year from all parts of India and neighbouring countries. Nearly 60 per cent of them receive primary care at the hospital; more than 70 per cent are treated almost free.

At least 1,000 patients report as out patients every day, the spokesman said.

As for HLL Lifecare, its infrastructure development and facility management division provides services in design, engineering, execution and management of healthcare facilities.

Among its clients are the central and various state governments, the National Rural Health Mission, the Employees State Insurance Corporation; Jipmer, Puducherry; medical colleges at Bangalore, Salem and Madurai; and the Kerala University of Health Sciences.

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