The Odisha government on Wednesday announced cancer as a ‘reportable disease’ in the state for early detection and treatment.
It is now obligatory for doctors, pathologists, and medical establishments in Odisha to report all diagnosed cancer incidences to the state government within two weeks from the date of diagnosis.
The decision was taken after the Health and Family Welfare department found that non-maintenance of cancer registries at health facilities led to a lot of unreported cancer cases.
In a notification, the state health department expressed the estimation of the cancer burden and its distribution with reference to time and place is important to mobilise resources for prevention and control and reducing the mortalities attributed to it.
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The state government, after due contemplation of the matter, has also found it imperative that all diagnosed cancer incidences should be reported to the appropriate authorities for early detection and treatment of disease, it said.
The state government has begun the Population-Based Cancer Registry (PBCR) in Khordha district on October 15, 2022, from the NISER Bhubaneswar campus with support from Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, and the Department of Atomic Energy.
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