Media Release
Mangaluru, Jun 7: The chairman of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), government of India SA Bharadwaj, accompanied by V Balasubramanyan, director, Nuclear Safety Analysis and Research Group and Safety Research Institute, AERB and J Koley, head, Directorate of Radiation Protection and Environment, AERB, visited Mangalore Institute of Oncology (MIO) recently.
Prof H M Somashekarappa, coordinator, Medical Physics division of Mangalore University also accompanied them. Dr Suresh Rao, Dr M S Baliga and Jayapalan took them around and explained the infrastructure established for cancer diagnosis and therapy and the patient care being provided at MIO. They were highly appreciative of the high standards MIO has been maintaining in radiation safety and the quality of treatment providing for the cancer patients.
Dr Suresh Rao, the director expressed that MIO never compromises on quality and that this has helped in providing state of the art treatment available in internationally reputed cancer centers to the population of this region. Further, he also mentioned to the visiting dignitaries that MIO has entered into the MoU with Mangalore University to extend the expertise and infrastructure facilities required train the students of newly proposed MSc in Medical Physics course.