An official said on Friday that the central government will set up a 350-bed cancer hospital in Bihar's Nalanda district. ‘The central government has agreed to set up a super speciality cancer hospital in Nalanda’ said Jagdish Prasad director general of health services in the union ministry of health and family welfare. Prasad who hails from a village in Nalanda and was visiting his native place to attend a heart camp told newspersons that it will be first specialised government cancer hospital in the state. ‘The main purpose behind setting up a cancer hospital is to provide the facility to