Research should be translated into ‘action’ – Acharya

Christian Institute of Health Sciences and Research unveils ‘state-of-the-art’ radiotherapy centre [caption id="attachment_184570" align="alignleft" width="300"] Acharya inaugurating a radiotherapy centre in Dimapur on Tuesday. (EM Images)[/caption] Eastern Mirror Desk Dimapur, May 22 (EMN): The governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya today said that research should not be pursued only for personal gains – to get good job and earn handsome salary – but to transform into action that would lead to development of young minds for the progress of the country. The governor further said that research should not be pursued for research alone. Research should not be pursued only to get a certificate of degree rather, he said, research to be transformed into action and be applied for useful inventions for the growth and development of the country. For quite a few years now, Christian Institute of Health Sciences and Research (CIHSR) in Dimapur has been doing a commendable job in the field of healthcare. And adding yet another feather to their cap, the CIHSR today inaugurated a radiotherapy centre in the hospital premise. Acharya was attending a programme to inaugurate the radiotherapy centre on May 22 as the chief guest. While lauding the medical establishment for bringing in new equipments for treatment of cancer, the governor said that the state’s own people should take responsibility to address cancer in the state. Acharya spoke also about the need of the Nagas to think out of the box saying that many Nagas are now educated but still could not get employment in the state and are spread across the country. According to him, to ‘address education’ is the need of the hour. He stressed the need to review education system and called for practical-based education, and not theory alone. He questioned if the present system was “worth to call education”. Acharya called on the Naga people to stop being a servant and rather be an entrepreneur. Earlier, the director of the CIHSR Dr. Sedevi Angami, in his welcome address, dedicated the radiotherapy centre to the people of Nagaland. Angami thanked the Tata Trust for sponsoring INR 12.3 cr. to bring in the state-of-the-art equipments needed for the radiotherapy treatment. Angami said that about INR 3 cr. were also spent from the hospital’s earning for the building purposes. Also, he stressed the need to bring in more equipment for better treatment of cancer patients. Short speech was also delivered by the business director of Varian, Malti Sachdev. Sachdev declared, during her speech, that the linear accelerator installed at the radiotherapy centre was the 200th installation in the country and the first in Nagaland. According to Sachdev, this new machine would take only 3-5 minutes for treatment whereas the old ones take 20-25 minutes. To mark the 200th installation, she presented a memento from Varian to the director of CIHSR Dr. Sedevi Angami. Radiotherapy is a therapy using ionising radiation, generally as part of cancer treatment to control or kill malignant cells and normally delivered by a linear accelerator.