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ACTREC Expands with New Residential Facility
27 Mar
Summary
- A 12-storey building will house 784 students, researchers, and healthcare professionals.
- The new facility includes hostel rooms, flats, dining, gym, and a healing garden.
- This project supports cancer care professionals training at the institute.
Construction has begun on a new 12-storey residential facility at the Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC) campus in Kharghar. This project, a collaboration between the Harish & Bina Shah Foundation and the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), is set to significantly enhance the institute's infrastructure.
The facility will provide housing for 784 residents, including students, researchers, and healthcare professionals. It will offer 352 hostel rooms and 16 two-bedroom flats. Amenities will include a dining hall, gymnasium, yoga rooms, and a recreation ground designed as a healing garden.
This development is expected to strengthen ACTREC's academic ecosystem and support its growing role in advanced cancer research and training. ACTREC, a unit of TMC, handles approximately 10,000 new cancer cases annually, with the larger network seeing over 130,000 new cases each year.
