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Our Correspondent Kohima, Sep. 7 (EMN): Chief Secretary of Nagaland, J Alam, on Wednesday solicited the Tata Memorial Centre to set up a unit in Nagaland, which can be part of the existing hospitals or the Kohima medical college, adding that if there is a possibility, the state government would pursue the same. He was addressing the launch of a state-level programme on Medical Certification Cause of Death (MCCD) and Affordable Cancer Care project at Hotel Vivor in Kohima organised by Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, department of Health and Family Welfare and department of Economics and Statistics. He commended the Tata Memorial Centre for making cancer care affordable, and maintained that the Central government is also giving a lot of focus on the Northeast. Alam said several states have got their own cancer hospitals and exuded hope that Nagaland will come up with a cancer care centre very soon. Asserting that a lot of work is going on for improvement of public health and healthcare ser
Poor standards of reporting, a lack of accountability and wide disparities between states in the certification of deaths all contribute to the poor figures.