Six regional AIIMS to become functional by 2014

New Delhi: 9th August 2011

Work on six state-of- art tertiary care institutions modelled on the lines of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in the under-developed and under-served regions of the country was going on in full swing and they will start functioning by 2013-14. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said, the government has approved setting up of these six hospitals in Patna, Raipur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur and Rishikesh under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana. The minister said that residential complex at Jodhpur and Raipur has been completed and work is in progress at remaining sites.

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