The Maharashtra state cabinet has approved a Rs 300-crore project to set up a 30 MeV high-energy medical cyclotron facility aimed at strengthening cancer diagnosis and treatment services in the region.
The advanced facility will be established at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Bhansoli (Kinhi), and will enable local production of radioisotopes required for PET-CT scans. Currently, patients in Nagpur and Vidarbha depend on radioisotopes sourced from Mumbai, Hyderabad and other states — a process that raises transport costs and delays treatment due to the isotopes’ short half-life.
The new facility is expected to resolve this bottleneck while boosting cancer diagnostics, nuclear medicine, radiopharmaceutical production and biomedical research in the region. The project will be executed through MahaCare, a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013, for which the state has also approved a dedicated subsidiary. The government has sanctioned 30 hectares of land at Bhansoli (Kinhi) in Hingana taluka for the project.
The company’s board will include representatives from medical education, health, industries, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation, the district collector’s office, AIIMS, NCI, Tata Memorial.
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