Mysuru: The Mysore Consortium Against Cervical Cancer, comprising Mysore Medical College and Research Institute (MMC&RI), JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research (JSS AHER) and Adichunchanagiri Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), Nagamangala, was inaugurated in city recently.

Public Health Research Institute of India (PHRII), a non-profit organisation based out of Mysuru, has joined hands with Dr. Shobha Krishnan, a graduate of Mysore Medical College and Founder of Global Initiative Against HPV and Cervical Cancer, to start this Consortium.

PHRII, which is serving the local communities since 2007, is involved in healthcare delivery, health education, research and has provided free care to over 20,000 Mysureans. “One woman dies every eight minutes in India from cervical cancer and these institutions will collaborate to mitigate this preventable disease with state-of-the-art cervical cancer screening programmes and research more effective ways to save our mothers, wives, sisters and daughters from these needless deaths,” stated a press release from PHRII.

PHRII has collaborated with MMC&RI in providing education on cervical cancer to nursing students. It plans to launch a Cervical Cancer Specialty Centre in January 2025, with the latest equipment and facilities to screen for and prevent cervical cancer.