The Governor has been giving some payments to dialysis patients from government funds. What has to be done is ensure the kidney patients get donated kidneys. For this he must get the government to form a special cell to help in such kidney replacements and provide money for the same. He has now turned his attention to underprivileged cancer patients. While all this is good we need to get down to the root causes. Goa lacks cancer detection equipment’s like PET scan and labs. The K D Ambani Hospital in Gujarat along with Datar Cancer Genetics launched comprehensive cancer screening tests that can detect 30 types of cancer in the early stages in people 30 years plus. This is a simple blood test to detect circulating tumour cells (CTC) or their clusters before they become clinically detectable. Kidney failures and cancer must be budgeted with clear road maps.
