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Kolkata,Counted among the leading tertiary care hospitals of the Indian Army, diagnostic facilities for cancer detection at Command Hospital (Eastern Command) now gets a major fillip with the installation of a new state-of-the-art GE Discovery-690 PET-CT scanner equipment, acclaimed as the most sophisticated equipment for the purpose currently available.

Lt Gen VP Chaturvedi, DG Medical Services (Army), here to attend a conference on new trends in medical practices which began Saturday, formally inaugurated the facility here today. PET-CT was once universally hailed as a path breaking "medical invention" at the dawn of the new millennium.

Dedicating the facility to the patients, Gen Chaturvedi who is also the Colonel Commandant of the Army Medical Corps, said that sophisticated diagnostic tools like PET-CT will be of great help in formalizing the protocols of therapy among cancer patients.

 

Pointing out that with increasing life spans, there also has also been a quantum jump in cases of cancer and heart diseases among other diseases, Maj Gen Deepak Kalra, Hospital Commandant stated that diagnostic services will benefit not just the serving soldiers, ex-servicemen and their dependents in and around Kolkata but also others stationed elsewhere in the entire eastern sector.

The Indian Armed Forces through the Directorate General of Armed Forces Medical Services has embarked on an ambitious program of modernizing health care facilities for its clientele with installation of five such PET-CT machines in tertiary care hospitals of the Armed Forces, CH (EC), Kolkata, being foremost among them.

This latest facility will immensely help the patients for early diagnosis and help clinicians to plan therapeutic options. It is worthwhile to note that this facility is presently also available only in a few select centres in entire eastern India.