PPSW provides medicines worth Rs 5 million to cancer patients

The PINUM Patients Welfare Society (PPSW) has provided medicines worth Rs 5 million to the poor and deserving cancer patients during last one year. A PPWS spokesman told that PINUM hospital was established in 1996 as a diagnostic centre. However, proper oncology department was added in 2004.
The PPSW was set up in 2008 in order to facilitate the poor and deserving cancer patients of this region. The society managed to create a PINUM pharmacy in 2010 to provide cancer related medicines by maintaining its cold chain. He told that this pharmacy has more than 5,000 medicines readily available for the different types of cancer patients.