“PM tried to open over 17 AIIMS in every region”: Health Minister JP Nadda responds to query in Lok Sabha

New Delhi [India], August 2 (ANI): Union Health Minister JP Nadda on Friday emphasized the central government’s vision for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tried to open over 17 AIIMS in every region of the country with the world’s best tertiary healthcare system.

Responding to BJP MP Nishikant Dubey’s query on AIIMS Deoghar, Nadda in Lok Sabha said that he understands the concerns of the leader, adding that the question asked by the latter is important.

“Our vision of All India Institute of Medical Sciences is that people from every corner of the country do not have to come to Delhi for their treatment. The way AIIMS is served in Delhi, AIIMS should serve them with the same brand name. PM Modi has tried to open over 17 AIIMS in every region of the country with the world’s best tertiary healthcare system. It will be made with the world’s best healthcare systems. In the 1950s AIIMS came but the recognition of the AIIMS took place in 1960 and 1970s,” Nadda said.

The Health Minister Nadda further said that institutions are not created in one day.

“If one wants to open the AIIMS then its standards are very different from district hospitals. The doctors of the district hospital they do practice also. But in AIIMS 24×7 doctors are there on the campus serving the patients. The amount of expenditure per patient is very different,” he said.

He further said that to become an international standard faculty in every AIIMS it will almost take 10-15 years.

“Faculty will grow and it will take 10-15 years to become an international standard faculty of every AIIMS. In the 1960s-70s, our best doctor used to say that we do not have the facility in the country that we are going out and today. PM Modi has created 22 world-class institutions. Hardware is there and we are trying to put software into it to the best possible,” he added

BJP leader Nishikant Dubey asked the Health Minister about the starting of services of OPD facilities along with emergency at AIIMS Deoghar.

“Where there was no doctor PM Modi gave us the AIIMS in Deoghar. The emergency facilities in AIIMS in Deoghar, despite the instructions of the Minister, have not yet started. I want to ask you when the services of OPD facilities along with emergency will start,” Dubey asked.

The monsoon session of Parliament commenced on July 22 and as per the schedule, the session will conclude on August 12.