Mysuru, Nov. 13 -- The Regional Cancer Centre (Peripheral Cancer Centre), which has been built in the PKTB Sanatorium campus on KRS Road in the city, is awaiting inauguration.

The Regional Cancer Centre of Bengaluru's Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology (KMIO) was established to meet the medical requirements of cancer patients from old Mysuru region districts such as Mysuru, Mandya, Hassan, Chamarajanagar and Kodagu.

The Centre was constructed on a 5-acre area next to Princess Krishnajammanni Super Speciality Hospital in PKTB Sanatorium campus on KRS Road. The 350-bed Centre has been built at a cost of Rs. 50 crore. But its delayed inauguration has kept the cancer patients of old Mysuru region anxious.

Meanwhile, Health and Family We...