Friday, January 4, 2019

Modi to lay foundation for AIIMS on January 27

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:04.01.2019

Prime minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for the construction of AIIMS (All India Institutes of Medical Sciences) in Madurai on January 27, Tamil Nadu health minster C Vijayabaskar said on Thursday.

Union health minister J P Nadda would participate in the event, he said. In December, the Union cabinet gave approval for establishing AIIMS at a cost of ₹1,264 crore in Thoppur near Madurai under the Prathan Manthri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana. The hospital is expected to start functioning in two years.

The announcement for a 200-acre AIIMS facility in Tamil Nadu at ₹2000 crore was made in the Union budget 2015-16. and the Centre picked Thoppur in Madurai for the facility. The 750-bed hospital will have up to 20 super specialty departments. Besides, it will have 100 MBBS and 60 BSc nursing seats. Modi is also expected to inaugurate multispecialty hospitals in Madurai, Thanjavur and Tirunelveli built at a cost of ₹175 crore each using funds from the Centre.

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