22 AIIMS announced/sanctioned under Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana : Choubey

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New Delhi : Twenty-two AIIMS have been announced/sanctioned to be set under Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) including at Rae Bareli (UP), Mangalagiri (Andhra Pradesh), Nagpur ( Maharashtra), Kalyami (West Bengal), Gorakhpur ( UP), Bathinda ( Punjab), Guwahati ( Assam), Bilaspur (HP), Madurai ( Tamil Nadu), Bihar, Jammu, Kashmir, Jharkhand, Rajkot ( Gujarat), Bibinagar ( Telangana), and Manethi ( Haryana).

Six  AIIMS i.e. Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Patna, Raipur and Rishikesh, were  made functional in Phase-1.

Guiding principle for establishing additional AIIMS like institutions/hospitals in the country is the Presidential address to the Parliament dated June 9, 2014, wherein it was inter-alia announced that “to address the shortfall of health care professionals, health education and training will be transformed and AIIMS like institutes will be established in every State in a phased manner”.

Under Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY), All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) are being set up in various states of the country as per the budget announcements. Apart from 22 new AIIMS, which have been announced/sanctioned, proposals for setting up AIIMS-like hospitals have been received from Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tripura and Mizoram.

AIIMS are being set up in various parts of the country in a phased manner as per budget announcements keeping in view gaps in tertiary healthcare infrastructures in different regions of the country and availability of funds. Minister of State (Health and Family Welfare) Ashwini Kumar Choubey stated this in a written reply in the Lok Sabha on November 29, 2019, according to a PIB release.