Cancer care badly hit during pandemic at Kidwai: Report
The Hindu
February 4 is World Cancer Day
The COVID-19 pandemic had a considerable impact on the cancer care facility with number of registration, diagnosis and treatment being badly hit at the State-run Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology.
According to data from the institute, there was a 29% reduction observed in 2020 compared to 2019 in terms of new registrations. While follow-up visits were hit by 26%, the number of surgeries reduced by 42%. The number of radiotherapy fractions delivered and chemotherapy treatment fell by 14.5% and 38% respectively in this period.
In 2011, the Karnataka government announced that five botanical gardens will be developed on the lines of the Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru across the State. But according to the latest developments, there will only be four such gardens as the Horticulture Department is most likely to drop the project that was supposed to come up in Chikkaballapura district.