Six AIIMS stuck in pipeline, pipe dream for another 23
18 Jun 2014 5:20 AM IST
The grand plan of prime minister Narendra Modi to have All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in each of the 29 states may suffer due to inertia in the health ministry. A reality check done by Millennium Post showed the government was still to make operational any of the six AIIMS it had started outside New Delhi over ten years back.
While speaking to Millennium Post recently at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (RML), health secretary Luv Verma said the government is mulling to write letters to all six chief ministers to find out the status of progress of AIIMS. The health secretary, who was present along with union health minister Harsh Vardhan at the function, also said, ‘A meeting of all directors of the institutes was called recently. At the meeting directors were told that the hospitals and the colleges attached to them should be completed without any further delay.’
While replying on why plans should be made for more AIIMS when the earlier ones are yet to commissioned, Verma said, ‘If others are not completed it does not mean we should not try to start new ones.’ Complying with prime minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Health for All’ agenda, union health minister Harsh Vardhan had, on 31 May, proposed AIIMS-type institutes in all the states of the country.
The six new institutions modelled on AIIMS are located in Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Bhubaneshwar (Odisha), Jodhpur (Rajasthan), Patna (Bihar), Raipur (Chhattisgarh) and Rishikesh (Uttarakhand). All these news AIIMS will also have medical and nursing colleges. The Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government had announced in 2004 the setting up of new hospitals on the lines of AIIMS in New Delhi under the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Yojna.
While speaking to Millennium Post recently at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (RML), health secretary Luv Verma said the government is mulling to write letters to all six chief ministers to find out the status of progress of AIIMS. The health secretary, who was present along with union health minister Harsh Vardhan at the function, also said, ‘A meeting of all directors of the institutes was called recently. At the meeting directors were told that the hospitals and the colleges attached to them should be completed without any further delay.’
While replying on why plans should be made for more AIIMS when the earlier ones are yet to commissioned, Verma said, ‘If others are not completed it does not mean we should not try to start new ones.’ Complying with prime minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Health for All’ agenda, union health minister Harsh Vardhan had, on 31 May, proposed AIIMS-type institutes in all the states of the country.
The six new institutions modelled on AIIMS are located in Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Bhubaneshwar (Odisha), Jodhpur (Rajasthan), Patna (Bihar), Raipur (Chhattisgarh) and Rishikesh (Uttarakhand). All these news AIIMS will also have medical and nursing colleges. The Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government had announced in 2004 the setting up of new hospitals on the lines of AIIMS in New Delhi under the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Yojna.
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