Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 28: Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) today added 15 more beds in its day care ward dedicated for treatment and management of cancer patients.
Director SKIMS, Prof. Omar Javed Shah said that the SKIMS is a multi-super-specialty hospital and provides all kinds of treatment facilities to the patients suffering from various malignancies through Regional Cancer Center established at SKIMS. “The well-established services are offered to the patients with better access besides providing extra ordinary oncology care closer to the community, we serve. The cancer patients deserve the best and our plans blend comfortable, spacious facilities, advanced technology and a streamlined convenient care process for an ideal patient experience,” he said, adding, “our community has come to know and trust the doctors and level of care they provide.”
A SKIMS Spokesman said that SKIMS will set its services apart from others with its multi-disciplinary approach to care. “In our futuristic vision, each expansion project will create multi-disciplinary clinic, space, where navigating a cancer diagnosis begins with a single, yet comprehensive modality,” he said.
He also said that it is because of the increase in number of patients due to high incidence of cancer, the space was found quite inadequate and would often result into patients waiting and in order to minimize the alleviate the miseries of the patients and to avoid the long queues, which were witnessed at SKIMS, an urgent measure in terms of enhancement of bed capacity was taken with the objective to provide the relief to the cancer patients.