The Union cabinet has Monday Dec 17,2018 approved establishment of two new All
India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Tamil Nadu and
Telangana. The new AIIMS in Madurai, Tamil Nadu will be established at a
cost of Rs. 1,264 crore while the government has announced a cost of Rs.
1,028 crore for the Institute in Bibinagar, Telangana. The AIIMSs will
be set up under Pradhan MantriSwasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY), said a
statement from the Union government.
The Union cabinet has also given its approval for creation of one post of Director in each of the above two AIIMS.
According to the official statement, each new AIIMS will add 100 MBBS seats and 60 B.Sc. Nursing seats and will have 15-20 Super Specialty Departments along with around 750 hospital beds
The timeframe for establishment of the new AIIMS Tamil Nadu and AIIMS Telangana will be 45 months, broadly comprising a pre-construction phase of 10 months, a construction phase of 32 months and stabilization/commissioning phase of 3 months, said the statement.
Construction, operations and maintenance of new AIIMS will be fully funded by the Central government.
The PMSSY, a Central sector scheme, aims at correcting the imbalances in the availability of affordable tertiary healthcare facilities in different parts of the country in general, and augmenting facilities for quality medical education in the under-served States in particular.
The AIIMS in Tamil Nadu was announced in the Budget Speech of Finance Minister in 2015-16 and Ministry of Finance conveyed its in-principle approval for establishment of AIIMS in Telangana in April, 2018
The Union cabinet has also given its approval for creation of one post of Director in each of the above two AIIMS.
According to the official statement, each new AIIMS will add 100 MBBS seats and 60 B.Sc. Nursing seats and will have 15-20 Super Specialty Departments along with around 750 hospital beds
The timeframe for establishment of the new AIIMS Tamil Nadu and AIIMS Telangana will be 45 months, broadly comprising a pre-construction phase of 10 months, a construction phase of 32 months and stabilization/commissioning phase of 3 months, said the statement.
Construction, operations and maintenance of new AIIMS will be fully funded by the Central government.
The PMSSY, a Central sector scheme, aims at correcting the imbalances in the availability of affordable tertiary healthcare facilities in different parts of the country in general, and augmenting facilities for quality medical education in the under-served States in particular.
The AIIMS in Tamil Nadu was announced in the Budget Speech of Finance Minister in 2015-16 and Ministry of Finance conveyed its in-principle approval for establishment of AIIMS in Telangana in April, 2018
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