Lok Sabha Question No. 3412 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-22
Subject: Radio-Pharmaceuticals
Ministry: ATOMIC ENERGY
Asked by: MAUSAM NOOR

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA DEPARTMENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 3412

TO BE ANSWERED ON 22.03.2017

## RADIO-PHARMACEUTICALS

## 3412.  SHRIMATI MAUSAM NOOR:

Will the PRIME MINISTER be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has taken cognizance of the reported delay on the part of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board in issuing no objection certificate to hospitals to import/receive radio-pharmaceuticals and if so, the details thereof and the reasons therefor along with the steps taken by the Government in this regard;
- (b) whether  the  said  delay  has  resulted  in  patients  using  the  same  radiopharmaceuticals thus suffering a delay in availing medications and if so, the details thereof and the steps taken by the Government in this regard;
- (c) whether the Government has constituted a Committee to provide radioactive source (cobalt-60) to cancer hospitals free of cost and if so, the details and the  recommendations  thereof  along  with  the  hospitals  identified  for  the distribution of the said radioactive source; and
- (d) whether  the  constitution  of  the  said  Committee  has  resulted  in  making radiotherapy facilities less expensive and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

THE  MINISTER  OF  STATE  FOR  PERSONNEL,  PUBLIC  GRIEVANCES  & PENSIONS AND PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE (DR. JITENDRA SINGH):

- (a)&(b) The No Objection Certificate for importing radioactive consignments including generators, is issued by Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB). There has been no delay in issuance of No Objection Certificate (NOCs) to hospitals for the import/procurement of radiopharmaceuticals.
- (c)       Department of Atomic Energy has constituted a Committee in January, 2007 called  the  Apex  Committee for  the  development  of  programmes of  Cancer Institutions  in  India  (ACCII)  which  is  headed  by  Director,  Tata  Memorial Centre (TMC) which recommends disbursement of grant-in aid to Hospitals

for  cancer  treatment  in  India.    The  following  Institutions  /  Hospitals  were disbursed grant-in-aid as a reimbursement for the procurement of radioactive source (Cobalt-60) during the last 2 years:-

## 2014-15

|   Sl. No. | Name of the institute                                                                      |
|-----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|         1 | Dr. Shishir Gosavi, Executive Director, Shri Siddhivinayak Ganapati Cancer Hospital, Miraj |
|         2 | Anjan Gupta Saroj Gupta Cancer Centre and Res. Inst, Kolkata                               |
|         3 | Dr. S. Santhakumar, Govt. Rajaji Hospital, Madurai                                         |
|         4 | Prof. T.K. lahiri, Principal, Medical College, Kolkata                                     |
|         5 | Govt. Medical College Hospital, Aurangabad                                                 |
|         6 | Superintendent, Govt. General Hospital, Ernakulam                                          |
|         7 | JIPMER, Puduchery                                                                          |
|         8 | Tata Memorial Centre for Bathinda, Punjab                                                  |

## 2015-16

|   Sl. No. | Name of the institute                                                         |
|-----------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|         1 | Banaras Hindu University, Banaras                                             |
|         2 | Indian Red Cross Society, Cancer Hospital, Nellore                            |
|         3 | Christian Fellowship Community Health Centre, Ambilikkai, Tamil Nadu          |
|         4 | Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh                                              |
|         5 | Shri Sayaji General Hospital, Vadodara                                        |
|         6 | Acharya Tulsi RCC, Bikaner                                                    |
|         7 | Tetiary Cancer Centre Arunachal State Hospital, Naharlagun, Arunachal Pradesh |
|         8 | Govt. Medical College, Patiala                                                |

- (d) No studies have been conducted so far.

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