New Delhi, Feb. 3 -- A key announcement in the Union budget presented on Saturday was the establishment of 200 cancer daycare centres in district hospitals in 2025-26. While these would serve to decentralize cancer care, experts expressed concern over the absence of enough skilled medicos to run them amid growing incidence of the cancers.

The government aims to add cancer daycare centres to all district hospitals in the next three years. There are currently 759 district hospitals in the country.

"Cancer is not a disease of convenience.we call it precision medicine," said Dr B.S. Ajaikumar, founder and executive chairman of cancer care chain HealthCare Global Enterprises (HCG). Raising concerns over whether government and district hospit...