Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital will start its operations in Uttar Pradesh by the end of this year.

The assurance to this regard was given by a three-member team of Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital led by Dr RA Badwe, which met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath here on Tuesday. The team presented a road map of setting up a high class institute in CG City of Lucknow. All the departments of the institute will start working from January 2019 while the surgical and medical oncology department will start operation from October 2019, Dr Badwe said.

The CM has given directives to complete the construction work of the institute at the earliest. The Hospital has also been asked to appoint a full-time Director. ''Prepare a DPR and submit the same to the UP government within three month’s time,'' Yogi conveyed to the committee. Besides, a team of expert from Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital will visit Lucknow three to four times a month to provide its expert help. The institute will provide all 26 super specialty facilities and link Delhi and Kolkata. It will work as an Apex Cancer institute, the CM said.