Siliguri, February 4, 2021: On behalf of World Cancer Day, renowned Oncologist of North Bengal, Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh of Siliguri Nursing Home has organized a unique Cancer Survivor Get together at Hotel Sinclairs on 4th February 2021. The cancer survivors treated by Dr. Ghosh took part and shared experience and struggle to come back in normal life after fighting Cancer.
The Cancer Survivors experience and interaction to find out a common way to keep on living together is the main aim of the Survivors Program. Dr. Ghosh provided some general information and discussed some common myths about Cancer. He also said at present cancers are actually curable and not everyone needs to go to Mumbai or Hyderabad for treatment. Siliguri Nursing Home Pvt. Ltd. has initiated an in-house Immunohistochemistry Lab and so it has become much easier to get a confirmed diagnosis of the type of cancer and start the treatment as soon as possible. For making the Cancer Treatment affordable to the general public, he thanked the government schemes (Swasthyasathi, WBHS) .
