Two more AIIMS like institutes and 5 more upgradations proposed
February 6th, 2009
(The PIB report is at http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=47274.)
The following is excerpted from a report in Hindu.
The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved two more AIIMS-like medical institutions, one in West Bengal and the other in Uttar Pradesh, at a cost of Rs.823 crore each. The Cabinet also decided to upgrade five government medical colleges in five States to the level of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
Announcing this, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said: “The proposed institution in West Bengal will come up at Raiganj in North Dinajpur district. The site for the AIIMS-like college and hospital in UP has not yet been identified.”
Raiganj is represented in the Lok Sabha by the ailing Union Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi.
Each institution, to be set up under the second phase of the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna (PMSSY), will have a 960-bed hospital and will provide health care facilities in 39 speciality or super-speciality disciplines.
There will be 500 beds for the medical college hospital, 300 for speciality or super-speciality, 100 for ICU or accident trauma, 30 for physical medicine and rehabilitation and 30 beds dedicated to Ayush (Ayurvedic, Unani, Siddha, Homoeopathy).
The medical college will have a hundred under-graduate intake, besides facilities for imparting post-graduate or doctoral courses and a nursing college.
The Cabinet also approved upgrading of the government medical colleges in Amritsar (Punjab), Tanda (Himachal Pradesh), Madurai (Tamil Nadu), Nagpur (Maharashtra) and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College of Aligarh Muslim University.
The upgrading of each of these medical colleges will be done at an estimated cost of Rs.150 crore. Of this, the Centre will contribute Rs.125 crore and a minimum of Rs.25 crore will be borne by the respective State governments.
In respect of Aligarh Muslim University, Rs.25 crore will be provided by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development.
With these additions to the earlier list the state wise distributions of AIIMS and the proposed institutes are as follows:
| State | New or existing AIIMS or AIIMS-like Institute and location [1 + 8 ] |
Upgradation [13 + 5] |
| Delhi | AIIMS, Delhi | |
| Orissa | Bhubaneswar | |
| Bihar | Patna | |
| Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal | |
| Uttarakhand | Rishikesh | |
| Rajasthan | Jodhpur | |
| Chhatisgarh | Raipur | |
| West Bengal | Raiganj (North Dinapur dist) | Kolkata Medical College |
| Uttar Pradesh | Place not decided |
Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, Varanasi Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College of Aligarh Muslim University (Phase 2) |
| J & K |
Govt. Medical College, Jammu. Govt Medical College, Srinagar |
|
| Andhra Pradesh |
Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad Sri Venkateshwara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati |
|
| Tamil Nadu |
Govt. Medical College, Salem Govt. Medical College, Madurai (Phase 2) |
|
| Jharkhand | Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS), Ranchi | |
| Gujarat | B.J. Medical College, Ahmedabad | |
| Karnataka | Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore | |
| Maharashtra |
Grant Medical College & Sir J.J. Group Of Hospitals, Mumbai Govt. Medical College, Nagpur (Phase 2) |
|
| Kerala | Medical College, Thrivananthapuram | |
| Punjab | Govt Medical College, Amritsar (Phase 2) | |
| Himachal Pradesh | Govt Medical College, Tanda (Phase 2) | |
| Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Goa, Haryana, |
Entry Filed under: AIIMS, Bhubaneswar,Bhubaneswar-Cuttack-Puri- Khurda area (1),PMSSY, AIIMS
2 Writeup
1. Ajaya Sahu | February 7th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Odisha should look one more AIIMS like institution especially for up-gradation of Brahmapur medical college which people are demanding many many years!!!
2. R P Tripathy | February 9th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
One more AIIMS like institution at Berhampur has been demanded by many people in the recent past but unless the state government makes an official demand before the Union Health Ministry rest all efforts would be of no conscequence. But sadly the effort of the state government is clearly missing and only when some concerned people of the State raise their voice on some issue the state government jumps late and makes it a centre vs state issue, but where is the political will on the part of the state government to provide quality health to the people of backward regions of the state including south orissa. From a lay man’s point of view you should be working simultaneously on a range of demands and some of them would be fulfilled in due course. But, except railways, we don’t have a roadmap of development of every pocket of the state.