Telangana makes most cancers a notifiable illness, mandates one-month reporting timeline

The Telangana authorities has issued orders making most cancers a notifiable illness, mandating obligatory registration and reporting of all recognized circumstances throughout the State as a part of a transfer to strengthen surveillance and public well being response. The order was issued by Well being Secretary Christina Z. Chongthu on Monday.

The order mentioned that at current solely institution-level most cancers registries exist in Telangana, together with Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) and the Mehdi Nawaz Jung Institute of Oncology and Regional Most cancers Centre (MNJIO RCC) in Hyderabad. The absence of a uniform, State-wide system was cited as a niche in public well being planning.

To handle this, the federal government has launched a compulsory reporting mechanism requiring all recognized most cancers circumstances, from each authorities and personal hospitals, to be reported. The target is to determine a strong surveillance system able to estimating incidence, prevalence and mortality, supporting early detection and screening, aiding therapy and rehabilitation companies, and facilitating evidence-based policy-making, monitoring and analysis. A uniform most cancers registry will operate as a centralised platform for the State, the order mentioned.

It additional added that each one circumstances of most cancers, together with in situ and invasive cancers recognized or registered at any healthcare facility, laboratory or by way of registrars of births and deaths, should be reported inside one month of analysis or registration in a prescribed format.

To operationalise the reporting system, District Medical and Well being Officers (DMHOs) have been tasked with making certain that each one establishments beneath their jurisdiction report most cancers circumstances mandatorily. Every facility should keep a chosen most cancers register to report each present and new circumstances. The Director of Public Well being (DPH) will monitor the timeliness and high quality of information submission.

The MNJ Institute of Oncology will operate because the Centre of Excellence (CoE) for most cancers care in Telangana and will likely be accountable for scrutiny and validation of submitted knowledge to make sure accuracy. It’s going to additionally coordinate with reporting establishments to acquire further particulars the place crucial. The institute will additional guarantee common submission of information to the Nationwide Most cancers Registry maintained by the Indian Council of Medical Analysis (ICMR).

Printed – April 07, 2026 07:05 pm IST