Development of AIIMS Like Institutions

Development of AIIMS Like Institutions

The Government has set a deadline to make the medical colleges at six sites to be made functional from Academic Year 2012-13 and hospitals in the year 2013-14. The Government had approved setting up of six AIIMS-like institutions in the States of Bihar (Patna), Chhattisgarh (Raipur), Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal), Orissa (Bhubaneswar), Rajasthan (Jodhpur) and Uttarakhand (Rishikesh) under the first phase of Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY).

Construction of Medical Colleges and Hospital Complexes at all the six AIIMS-like institutions in first phase has started and is in full swing. Residential complex at Jodhpur and Raipur has been completed and the work is in progress at remaining sites. An amount of Rs. 847 Crore has been released so far.

The sites for setting up AIIMS-like institutions have been identified on the basis of various socio-economic indicators like human development index, literacy rate, population living below poverty line, and per capita income, and health indicators like population to bed ratio, prevalence rate of serious communicable diseases, infant mortality rate etc.

This information was laid in Rajya Sabha today by the Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad.

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