Kathmandu, 10 January: A new central executive committee of the Nepal Cancer Relief Society (NCRC) was elected at its 11th annual general meeting held recently. Diwakar Rajkarnikar is chairperson while Dr Surendra Bahadur Bade Shrestha, Dhruba Bahadur Rawal, Kapila Joshi, Gajendra Man Rajbansi, Jit Bahadur Shrestha, Kedar Prajapati, Krishna Prasad Shrestha, Laxmi Bahadur Nirala, Pradip Man Vaidya, Dr Manohar Lal Shrestha, Devaki Adhikari and Bhanu Prakash Joshi are the other members of the newly elected executive committee.

The Nepal Cancer Relief Society was formed more than a decade ago to cancer patients in Nepal and build infrastructure for cancer treatment and generate awareness about cancer.