PM Modi cuts ribbon of projects making Healthy India at AIIMS

New Delhi, June 29: PM Modi today laid a foundation stone for of the National Centre for Aging at AIIMS and inaugurated the 555-bed Super Speciality Block in Safdarjung Hospital. He also dedicated 500-bed New Emergency Block in Safdarjung Hospital and the Connection Motorable Tunnel between AIIMS, Ansari Nagar, and Trauma Centre.

 

In the event, PM Modi spoke about the various initiatives the government is taking take the country more healthy. “The government has given a new direction to public health care in the last four years. Modi said the government is upgrading hospitals in 58 districts to medical colleges to provide better facilities” said PM Modi.

13 new AIIMS have been announced across the country, out of which work on eight has already begun. He said dialysis centers are being made in almost every district of the country where free dialysis facility is being provided to the poor.

Prime Minister Modi added that the government will set up 24 new medical colleges across the country as announced in the Budget. The Prime Minister also said India is working to free the country from TB by 2025. Talking about Yoga, PM Modi said it has established its name for preventive health care.

Earlier, the Prime Minister laid the foundation stone for the National Centre for Aging at AIIMS in New Delhi. This center will provide the elderly with Multi-Speciality healthcare and it will have 200 general ward beds. The work of the Centre will be completed by February 2020 at a cost of 330 crore rupees.

The tunnel will enable quick transfer of critical patients from the hospital to the trauma center in just five minutes. The one-kilometer long tunnel, and is the first such project to be implemented in the country.

 

Speaking on the occasion, Health Minister J P Nadda said, the government is committed to provide primary, secondary and tertiary care facilities in the country. He said, “projects amounting to 3000 crore rupees are currently underway at AIIMS, Delhi and that 1500 additional beds are expected to be created in the hospital.”

MoS for Health Anupriya Patel and Ashwini Kumar Choubey were also present at the function.