Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday inaugurated a cancer diagnostics and research centre in Kochi. It is reported that this centre is the country’s first oncology laboratory for comprehensive cancer diagnostic services.
Karkinos Healthcare’s advanced centre for cancer diagnostics and research will serve as a central lab for analysing specimens at molecular and genomic levels to aid in personalised targeted therapy, predicting possible response to treatment and evaluate response by liquid biopsy.
Inaugurating the lab on the third floor of the JLN Stadium Metro Station at Kaloor here, Vijayan said the state is encouraging more private-public partnership in the healthcare sector to benefit people.
The Tata Group is investing Rs 110 crore in Karkinos while Rakuten Medical, the global clinical stage biotechnology company, Mayo Clinic and Reliance Digital Health, hold minority stakes.
