Guwahati, March 15 -- Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday noted that Assam now operates two cancer hospitals and that no other state in the country possesses such an extensive network of cancer hospitals within the government sector.

Assam has a network of 17 cancer hospitals planned under the Assam Cancer Care Foundation (ACCF), a joint initiative of the Assam government and Tata Trusts and Sarma said that 12 of them are operational. Two more cancer treatment centres at Golaghat and Tinsukia, each developed at a cost of Rs 135 crore under ACCF were inaugurated by Union Home Minister Amit Shah today virtually from Guwahati.

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