Following is an excerpt from a report in Statesman.

The Hyderabad based Yashoda Cancer Institute has plans of setting up a hospital in Orissa and till such time it is committed to carry out health camps in the state by introducing its mobile cancer screening unit.

Addressing a Press conference here today, Mr Dheeraj Gorukanti, CEO of Yashoda Hospitals’ Group and Dr D Mohanty said the mobile cancer screening unit containing digital mammography, digital X-Ray, ultrasound scan, ECG room etc, all in a bus will be moving in rural areas of Orissa in May. The idea is to detect cancer at an early stage and educate the people. It is part of our CSR activities and presently the bus is moving around rural areas of Andhra Pradesh, they said.

Highlighting the facilities provided by Yashoda Cancer Institute, they said it offers RapidArc radiation therapy and is the only cancer institute in Asia to have this facility.

…  Yashoda Hospitals’ Group has over 1250 beds, 600 doctors and it attends to over 5 lakh patients per year, they said.