Daycare chemotherapy centres at 16 Karnataka dist hospitals from today
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will launch the hub-and-spoke model programme in Mysuru on Friday, operationalising the DCCCs at 16 district hospitals, under the Health Department, at once.
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