A new medical facility will tend to head and neck,
and women-specific cancers
Text: Farrokh Jijina Photos: Homyar Mistry — Homz
A donation of Rs 25,000 given over 25 years ago by a grateful patient became the foundation of the corpus that germinated into the establishment of CanCare Trust’s newly built Punya- shlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Head & Neck Cancer Institute of India (PAH-HNCII) in Bombay’s Mazagaon area this August. The culmination of senior oncological surgeon Dr Sultan Pradhan’s "long held dream,” the 17-storey, 93-bed hospital "could not have been done” without the input of trustees Dr Roshan Chinoy, senior histopathologist, and Dr Meher Elavia, senior anesthetist. The professional paths of Pradhan, Elavia and Chinoy have intersected and intertwined since 1975, the......