DW BUREAU / Chandigarh Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for dedicating the Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Mohali to the nation even as he called for establishment of sub-centers of the Institute in the Majha and Doaba belts to provide affordable quality treatment against cancer to the people of Punjab. In a statement here, the SAD president said "it gives me immense pleasure that the 300 bedded Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Mohali which came into being after former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal visited the Tata Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) in 2012, has been finally opened to the people. "It was the first such Institute to be approved by the TMC Board outside Mumbai with work starting on it in 2013. The SAD led government allotted fifty acres of land for the Institute which is part of the Medicity project initiated by it to provide world class treatment to the people of Punjab". Asserting that people would now get quality cancer treatment at subsidized costs, Mr Sukhbir Badal also appealed to the Prime Minister to facilitate establishment of two hundred bedded sub-centres of the Institute in Jalandhar and Amritsar to broad base cancer treatment in the State. He also requested the Prime Minister to expedite construction of the PGI satellite centre at Ferozepur. (editor@dailyworld.in)