President Droupadi Murmu will be the Chief Guest at the commemoration of the Golden Jubilee celebration of NIMHANS in Bengaluru today. To mark the occasion, the President will inaugurate a new Psychiatry block, Central Laboratory complex and hostel building. She will be dedicating to the nation the advanced 3T MRI scanner and DSA machine. The MRI scanner is AI-enabled and will provide images of the brain helping early
diagnosis. The DSA machine will help detect the magnitude of brain damage through 3D rotational angiography.
Later in the day, the President will also inaugurate a state-of-the-art Cancer hospital in Belagavi in North Karnataka. Governor Thawarchand Gehlot, Union Ministers J P Nadda and Prahlad Joshi and other dignitaries will be present on these occasions