AOI starts radiotherapeutic emergency services

Dr Deepak Abrol (Senior Consultant, Radiation Oncology) and his team posing together.
Dr Deepak Abrol (Senior Consultant, Radiation Oncology) and his team posing together.

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 15: Going by its commitment to provide quality and evidence based management to cancer patients in Jammu and Kashmir, American Oncology Institute (AOI) brought new dimension by starting radiotherapeutic emergency services.
There are few radiotherapeutic emergencies which need urgent attention and one such case landed in AOI Jammu at ASCOMS Sidhra who was in need of urgent Radiation treatment for profuse bleeding.
A team comprising Dr Deepak Abrol (Senior Consultant, Radiation Oncology), Manjinder Kaur (Medical Physicist) and Shubham Negi (RTT) planned and delivered the radiation treatment and initiated the Emergency Radiation Oncology services.
Dr Neeraj Bishnoi (Regional COO) and Vikrant Thakur (Facility Director) reiterated commitment of AOI Jammu to go any extra mile to provide 24 × 7 help to cancer patients.