PM Modi Bageshwar Dham Visit: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (23 February) laid the foundation stone of Balaji Cancer Institute and Research Center in Bageshwar Dham. Prime Minister Modi laid the foundation stone of Bageshwar Dham Cancer Hospital located in Chhatarpur to be built at a cost of Rs 218 crore. This hospital will be dedicated to the treatment of serious diseases like cancer. It has been claimed that the entire Bundelkhand region will benefit from this. Poor patients will be treated free of cost here. During this, PM Modi announced the opening of 'Cancer Day Care Center' in every district of the country in the next three years.
PM Modi said that such a big hospital is going to be opened for cancer patients in Bageshwar Dham because now cancer is becoming a big problem. He said that that is why today the government and the saint community are making joint efforts in the fight against cancer. He said that in the budget that has come this year, many announcements have been made to fight cancer. In the coming time, cancer medicines will be made cheaper. In the next three years, cancer day care centers will be opened in every district of the country. PM said that there will be facilities for investigation and rest here.
On the occasion of the foundation stone laying ceremony of the proposed cancer hospital at Bageshwar Dham in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh, Peethadheeshwar Dhirendra Krishna Shastri has announced that this hospital will have a ward named after Prime Minister Modi's mother. At the ceremony held at Bageshwar Dham, Prime Minister Modi laid the foundation stone of the proposed Science and Research Center through remote. Prime Minister Modi earlier visited the Balaji temple located in Bageshwar Dham and offered prayers. Apart from this, PM Modi also met Dhirendra Krishna Shastri's mother.
10.925 hectares of land has been identified for the cancer hospital. A target has been set to build the cancer hospital in 36 months. In its first phase, there will be a facility of 100 beds, in which poor cancer patients will be treated free of cost through modern machines and specialist doctors. A ward in this proposed hospital will be established in the name of Prime Minister Modi's mother. After the foundation stone of the hospital was laid by the Prime Minister, the outline of the proposed hospital was also displayed through a video.
During this, while addressing a huge public gathering, Dhirendra Krishna Shastri, head of Bageshwar Dham, called PM Modi 'The Great PM of India'. Dhirendra Shastri presented a statue of Balaji to PM Modi. He also gifted him a book written on Sanatan Dharma and a souvenir. Praising the Prime Minister from the stage, Dhirendra Shastri said, "We have got such a Prime Minister who talks about saints and Mahants. Till now there were temples in hospitals and now there will be hospitals in temples. This is the biggest boon for Bundelkhand. Vishwamitra's India is playing the role of Vishwamitra."
The Bageshwar Dham chief also said that there will be a ward in the name of PM Modi's mother Hira Ben. He said, "The hospital will be completed in two to three years. The idea is to make it a medical college. Hospitals will also provide treatment and medicines. A ward will be built in the hospital in the name of PM's mother."
