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New Delhi, Oct 3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi lay the foundation of a 750-bed AIIMS-style hospital in Himachal Pradesh’s Bilaspur on Tuesday.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh today (Tuesday). He will lay the foundation stone for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS),” the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) tweeted.
“The 750 bed hospital will be built at a cost of approximately Rs 1,350 crore. In addition to healthcare, it will also provide medical education at the under-graduate and post-graduate level, besides nursing.”
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PM Modi will lay the foundation stone of a new AIIMS when about 25,000 seats, as per government’s own admission, are vacant in existing seven AIIMS in as many states including Delhi.
The Central government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi informed the Rajya Sabha two months back (1st Aug 2017) that exactly 24,426 posts are vacant at seven AIIMS hospitals in the country.
AIIMS
Number of Vacancies
Bhopal
3882
Bhubaneswar
3637
Jodhpur
4346
Patna
3844
Raipur
3801
Rishikesh
3418
New Delhi
1498
Total
24426
While giving the information Minister of State (Health and Family Welfare), Faggan Singh Kulaste said that vacancy position in various categories in AIIMS, New Delhi is regularly monitored and action for filling up of the vacant posts are being taken on regular basis.
He also said that various measures have been taken to facilitate expeditious filling up of vacancies in the new AIIMS. Separate Standing Selection Committees (SSCs) have been constituted for each of the six new AIIMS. The upper age limit for direct recruitment against the post of Professor and Additional Professor in the six new AIIMS has been raised from the present 50 years to 58 years. Contractual appointment of faculty is also permitted as a stop gap arrangement.
About 25,000 seats are vacant at premier public hospitals at a time when about 4,80,000 people died in 2015 or 1,315 every day due to tuberculosis (TB) in the country and about 321 children died every day of diarrhoea in 2015. In all, tens of thousands die every day for various diseases.
—With inputs from IANS
