By India Tomorrow News,
New Delhi, 01 June 2014: The Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan has requested the Chief Ministers of all states to set up super-speciality hospitals modelled on the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in their respective states to serve the needs of both the population and doctors.
Currently six AIIMS have so far been initiated in Bhopal, Bhubhaneswar, Jodhpur, Patna, Raipur and Rishikesh as part of the first phase of the Health Minister’s plan. Partial operations have started at these institutions with giving tertiary healthcare as well as undergraduate and postgraduate medical education.
After reviewing the progress of all the new AIIMS projects, the Health Minister asked that the directors of these institutions submit their detailed status reports within a week.
If necessary, the Health Minister said that he would speak to the Chief Ministers of their respective states to remove bottlenecks for the projects’ speedy completion. He offered to increase the powers of the directors to take on-the-spot decisions to avoid bureaucratic delays.
The Health Minister has directed the Ministry’s officers to establish schools of public health in all six new AIIMS. Presently, the International School of Public Health is functional only in AIIMS-Jodhpur and AIIMS-Raipur in partnership with Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Vardhan has also said that the Central government would consider having more AIIMS projects if the chief ministers show more interest.
