Cancer hospital adds new unit

Kolkata: A cancer

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in Kolkata will flag off its new bone marrow transplant (BMT) unit by conducting a procedure on a patient from Contai on Friday. Urban development minister Firhad Hakim will inaugurate the unit at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

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Hospital at Nayabad on Friday and dedicate the unit to Ashis Mukhopadhyay, its late founder.

Forty-four-year-old Rezaul Hossain from Contai — who suffers from multiple myeloma — will undergo an autologous BMT, said medical oncologist Tanmoy Mandal, who will conduct the procedure along with Sudip Das, another medical oncologist. The hospital has decided to waive bed charges and doctor’s fees for the procedure.

“We decided to open the unit on the 58th birth anniversary of our founder and start the procedure with poor patients as he believed in quality care being extended to them,” said Soma Mukhopadhyay, managing trustee of the hospital.