Work will start for AIIMS in Assam soon: Nadda

The Centre has already announced setting up an AIIMS in Assam and work on it will start soon, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare J P Nadda said here today.
"A new AIIMS has been announced for Assam by our government and very soon the work on the project will start," Nadda said after laying the foundation of a super speciality block under PMSSY at the Guwahati Medical College.
"Our government has also decided to upgrade the district hospitals at Nagaon, North Lakhimpur and Dhubri to the status of medical colleges," the Minister said.
He said Rs 189 crore would be sanctioned for each of these colleges and as a first instalment Rs 22 crore had already been given to the state government.

Since May 2014, more than Rs 1,567 crore had been released for Assam under the National Health Mission (NHM).
The Minister said under the upgradation project of the Guwahati Medical College, Super Speciality Department of Pediatrics Surgery, Haematology, Gastroenterology, Gastrointestinal (GI) Surgery, Endocrinology and Burns and Plastic Surgery would be created.

This would add 190 beds, 60 ICU beds, 6 OTs to the institute at an approved cost of Rs 150 crore.
The foundation stone of a similar project had also been laid at the Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh, on February 12 last and tertiary care facilities would thus get a boost with all these projects coming up, the Minister said.

"Assam has shown progress on all fronts and I believe that these new initiatives shall improve healthcare facilities in the state," he said.