Cancer patients in need of radiation are being turned away from the Shillong Civil Hospital, the only place in the entire Meghalaya that offers radio-therapy, after a national regulatory board found both physicists working at the hospital wanting in necessary certification.
Any medical physicist wishing to work as a radiologist at a hospital in India must earn a diploma from the Bhaba Atomic Re
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/norm-glitch-hits-cancer-patients
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/telegraph-north-east
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/shillong
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cancer
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/meghalaya
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/medical-research
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-care
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/radiation
