The Chief Minister visited the MCC on Sunday to inaugurate the Cancer Genetic Laboratory set up there. The visit, however, assumed significance as it occurred in the wake of his recent acquittal in the SNC-Lavalin case by the High Court. The MCC had survived all corruption charges and had grown into a major health care institution. Mr. Vijayan said that the MCC had been conceived in 1996 during the then Left Democratic Front government as a cancer centre in collaboration with the Canadian company. He said the MCC would be elevated to the standard of the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) in Thiruvananthapuram.

Source: The Hindu August 27, 2017 17:48 UTC