Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 14 dedicated the AIIMS Guwahati to the people of the nation. This is the first AIIMS in the North East, built at the cost of Rs 1,123 crore with a 750 beds hospital facility.
The super-speciality hospital will provide healthcare not only to people in Assam but also to other North Eastern States.
PM Modi also virtually inaugurated three medical colleges at the Nalbari, Nagaon and Kokrajhar districts of Assam.
These medical college hospitals with 500-bed tertiary care, teaching facilities with 24 undergraduate departments will start with 100 annual MBBS student intake. This will take the total MBBS student intake to 1500 in Assam.
Speaking on the occasion, PM Modi said Assam had achieved many milestones in the Health and Education sectors in the last nine years. The infrastructure development in the entire North East region is a major achievement for the Government. Earlier, the parties and Governments who wanted to rule the nation and who were hungry for credit saw the North East as a tyranny of distance. But our Government has mitigated the distance. Now North East is not far from Delhi.
PM Modi also laid the foundation of the Rs 546 crore Assam Advanced Healthcare Innovation Institute (AAHII), a joint initiative of the Assam Government and IIT Guwahati.
AAHII aims to promote inventions and innovations in medicine and healthcare, nurturing multidisciplinary research and development in frontier areas of medicine by marrying engineering with healthcare.
The PM also launched the distribution of 1.1 crore Ayushman cards to beneficiaries who will be able to avail cashless healthcare medical treatment benefits up to Rs five lakh with these cards.
Assam governor Gulab Chand Kataria, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandavia and other dignitaries were also present on the occasion.
