Govt to set up six AIIMS-like medical institutes

New Delhi - 09 August 2011 (PTI): The government intends to set up six AIIMS-like medical institutions in different states and Rs 847 crores have been released so far for them.

Stating this in theRajya Sabhain reply to a written question, health and family welfare ministerGhulam Nabi Azadsaid the government has set a deadline to make medical colleges at six sites functional from academic year 2012-13 and hospitals by the year 2013-14.

He said the government had approved the setting up of six AIIMS-like institutions in 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, he said the Rajya Sabha. Residential complex at Jodhpur and Raipur has been completed and work is in progress at remaining sites, he said.

Azad said 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, per capita income and health indicators like population-to-bed ratio, prevalence rate of serious communicable diseases, infant mortality rate etc.