Cancer affects 1 in every 1,000 people in India. One cancer hospital in Punjab is attracting patients from all over northern India for its specialized care.
00:01Bashir Ahmad Bhatt has traveled nearly 600 kilometers from Kashmir to the Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital in Mohali, Punjab.
00:10He suffers from a rare bone cancer called chondrosarcoma, but he can still walk on his own.
00:16Doctors once considered amputating his leg to stop the disease.
00:21Dr. Ashish Gulia has performed Bhatt's first surgery and has been treating him for the past four years.
00:42He says bone cancers are quite complex.
00:46Chondrosarcoma is a very rare tumor.
00:51In this cancer, the cartilage of the cells, the proliferation of its proliferation is much more.
00:59The malignancy is converted into the control.
01:07This is a rare tumor and only surgical operation is a main treatment.
01:15To help diagnose and treat cancers early, the medical team of the Homi Bhabha Hospital now holds health fairs in local villages.
01:26Jaspir Kaur's mother had cancer, so she knows how knowledge can be used to prevent the deadly disease.
01:29Jaspir Kaur's mother had cancer, so she knows how knowledge can be used to prevent the deadly disease.
01:42If symptoms of the disease are found, the people are then referred to the Homi Bhabha Hospital, the people are then referred to the Homi Bhabha Hospital.
01:49Patients are now coming in from all over northern India.
02:17At the hospital, there is no hospital who is only cancer, and the doctor is only cancer.
02:24At this hospital, there is no hospital in any public sector who is only oncology care.
02:32So, you don't care about oncology.
02:35Bashir Ahmad Bhatt's checkup is now done, and he's ready to return home.
02:39He remains determined to fight the disease, but would prefer to avoid the hard, expensive trip from Kashmir.
02:47He hopes that one day every Indian state would have a cancer hospital like this one.
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