PARLIAMENT QUESTION: HOMI BHABHA CANCER HOSPITALS AND RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTION CENTRES

• Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospitals (HBCH) are tertiary cancer-care facilities run by the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), a Grant-in-Aid institution under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).
• Radiopharmaceutical Production Centres are operated by BRIT (Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology), Mumbai, a constituent unit of DAE, supplying isotopes to 400+ nuclear medicine centres in India.
• Demonstrates the dual-use civilian dividend of India's nuclear programme — bridging GS-III (Science & Tech) with GS-II (Health governance).