Overview
- Budget outlays include Rs 1,529.38 crore for L2 upgrades and Rs 147.70 crore for L3 facilities, plus a Rs 100 crore seed corpus for the foundation.
- Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will chair MAHACARE, with Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar as vice-chairs, alongside a board of ministers, officials and sector experts.
- A central command-and-control unit will coordinate services, training and research to deliver radiotherapy, chemotherapy, surgery, diagnostics and palliative care closer to patients.
- Recruitment for L2 hubs will be handled by the Medical Education and Public Health departments, while most L3 centres will run under PPP models, with the Shirdi Sansthan self-funding its site.
- Officials cite ICMR-NCDIR data projecting an 11% rise in cancer cases since 2020, with the policy aligned to the Centre’s directive for district-level day-care oncology.