Karkinos Healthcare, a technology-driven, oncology focussed managed well being care platform, has launched ‘Superior Centre for Most cancers Diagnostics and Analysis’ in Kochi.
The centre was inaugurated by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
The centre will function a central lab for the Karkinos’ international oncology community, analysing specimens at molecular and genomic degree to assist in personalised focused remedy, predicting potential response to therapy in addition to to guage response by liquid biopsy.
Moni Abraham Kuriakose, Co-Founder, Medical Director & CEO–Kerala Operations, Karkinos Healthcare mentioned, ”Avanced Middle for Most cancers Diagnostics and Analysis is the devoted analysis lab that strives to create options for the long run via innovation. The main target is on early diagnostic instruments, molecular assays for precision drugs, which aren’t available within the nation.
Sundar Raman, Co-Founding father of Karkinos Healthcare, mentioned, the estimated variety of new most cancers sufferers in India is 13.2 lakhs and present quantity is three-times of this charge. The disaster is that diagnoses are taking place at late stage which is rising the price of therapy and decreasing the remedy charge. Karkinos makes an attempt to deliver synergy in distributed healthcare infrastructure via know-how, in order that most cancers screening will be carried out on the group degree and affected person care turns into coordinated and seamless via the Karkinos Command Centre. The imaginative and prescient of Karkinos Healthcare is to enhance the most cancers care expertise and remedy.
Karkinos Healthcare has put in essentially the most superior high-throughput HPV assay gear Cobas 6800 with the flexibility to check over 1200 Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) assays of all high-risk sorts. Karkinos healthcare has partnered with skilled organisations similar to Kerala Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecologic (KFOG) to help World Well being Organisation’s mission of eliminating cervical most cancers by 2030.
Karkinos Healthcare, pioneering the Distributed Most cancers Care Community mannequin in India has Ratan Tata, Venu Srinivasan, Kris Gopalakrishnan, Ronnie Screwvala, Vijay Shekar Sharma, and Bhavish Agarwal amongst its set of buyers. The Tata Group is investing ₹110 crore in Karkinos whereas Rakuten Medical, the worldwide scientific stage biotechnology firm, Mayo Clinic and Reliance Digital Well being, maintain minority stakes. Enterprise Capital fund Endiya Companions additionally has a stake within the firm.
Karkinos Healthcare began its oncology companies from Idukki district in Kerala from April 2021 and since then has expanded to Ernakulam, Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram, Malappuram, and Kasaragod.
Karkinos Healthcare has expanded now to Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Manipur and Delhi-NCR and ramping up its operations throughout India with a goal to develop 400 group most cancers facilities.
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June 12, 2022
