Initiatives have been taken to make cancer specialist doctors

For this purpose, arrangements have been made to train the doctors at home and abroad.Responding to a question from ruling Awami League MP Shamsul Haque Chowdhury at the question-answer session on Wednesday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said these things.The Prime Minister said more than 200,000 people are affected by cancer every year. There is only one cancer specialist doctor for every million people in the country's population. This treatment is expensive, especially for the poor, low-income people, the medical cost is difficult - this is true. The Awami League government has taken various steps to provide better and modern medical care to provide cancer treatment services to the poor and low income of the country.She also said that as a special hospital in the country, the National Cancer Research Institute and Hospital were upgraded from 50 beds to 150 beds in 2009 and 150 beds to 300 beds in the year 2009. Advanced and modern quality cancer treatment equipment has been set up to provide modern and advanced treatment to the hospital.In order to decentralize the cancer treatment, the Prime Minister said that modern medical equipment has been set up at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University and in order to decentralize the treatment, new steps have been taken to add new radiotherapy machines to the old medical college hospitals.