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Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for a new All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here today. It will be built at an estimated cost of ₹1,011 crore to provide super-specialty healthcare and create a large pool of doctors in Uttar Pradesh.
“It is a very important day for eastern Uttar Pradesh. We are thankful to the Prime Minister for giving an AIIMS. He had said we will change the face and destiny of this region. The Prime Minister took special interest in this project,” Union Health Minister JP Nadda said addressing a rally here.
With next year’s Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls on BJP’s mind, Nadda stressed that the Prime Minister has given special focus to development of health facilities in the State.
To benefit 14 districts
The AIIMS will directly benefit the residents of 14 districts of eastern UP and the neighbouring districts of Bihar, the minister said. It is aimed at correcting the regional imbalances in availability of affordable and reliable tertiary level healthcare.
The AIIMS here, which will be spread over 112 acres, will be completed in 45 months and there would be 750 beds besides 300 super-speciality beds in the hospital.
Every medical batch will have 100 students while the nursing batch will have 60 students.
National Health Mission
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Modi had recently given its nod to the setting up of the AIIMS under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY).
The government had said that the establishment of new AIIMS will serve the dual purpose of providing super-specialty healthcare to the population while creating a large pool of doctors and health workers that can be available for primary and secondary level facilities being created under National Health Mission (NHM).
Regional diseases
The new AIIMS, once established, will also conduct research on prevalent regional diseases and other health issues and provide for better control and cure of such diseases.
The hospital will also include emergency or trauma and Ayush sections. There will be an administration block, Ayush block, auditorium, night shelter, hostels and residential facilities.
The cost estimate of ₹1,011 crore does not include recurring costs — wages and salaries and operation and maintenance expenses.
“This recurring expenditure will be met by the respective new AIIMS from their annual budgets through grant-in-aid to them from Plan Budget Head of PMSSY of the Health Ministry, the government had recently said.
Affordable healthcare
“The setting up of AIIMS under PMSSY aims at correcting the regional imbalances in availability of affordable and reliable tertiary level healthcare in the country and to augment facilities for quality medical education in under-served or backward states,” it had said in an official statement.
Under this scheme, similar health facilities have been established in Bhubaneshwar, Bhopal, Raipur, Jodhpur, Rishikesh and Patna while work on AIIMS, Rae Bareli is in progress.
Three new AIIMS at Nagpur (Maharashtra), Kalyani (West Bengal) and Mangalagiri (Andhra Pradesh) were sanctioned last year.
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