The Union Cabinet on 3 January approved setting up of an AIIMS in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh with an outlay of Rs 1,350 crore under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Surakhsa Yojna (PMSSY).
According to an official statement, the 750-bed AIIMS will have a medical college with an intake capacity of 100 seats and a nursing college with 60 seats.
The new AIIMS which will have 20 speciality and super speciality departments including 15 operation theatres will be completed in 48 months.
It will also have residential complexes and allied facility services on the pattern of AIIMS, New Delhi, the statement stated.
It will also have an AYUSH department with 30 beds for treatment in traditional system of medicine.
"It will have a medical college with an intake of 100 MBBS students per year. Nursing college with an intake of 60 B.Sc. (Nursing) students per year," said an official statement.
The new AIIMS will also help create a large pool of doctors and other health workers in the region, who would be available for primary and secondary level institution facilities being created under National Health Mission.Official statement
Several other AIIMS have been established under the PMSSY scheme, including in Bhubaneswar, Bhopal, Raipur, Jodhpur, Rishikesh and Patna while work on an AIIMS in Rae Bareli is in progress.
Also, three AIIMS in Nagpur (Maharashtra), Kalyani (West Bengal) and Mangalagiri in Guntur (Andhra Pradesh) were sanctioned in 2015; two AIIMS have been sanctioned at Bathinda and Gorakhpur in 2016 and an AIIMS in Kamrup (Assam).
(With inputs from PTI and IANS)
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