Cabinet approves creation of senior posts for six AIIMS like institutions

India's News.Net Thursday 17th July, 2008 (ANI) New Delhi, July 17 : The Union Cabinet today gave its approval for creating project cells to expedite work in respect of six AIIMS like institution under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) Scheme. The PMSSY was approved in March 2006 with the objective of correcting the imbalances in availability of affordable tertiary level healthcare in the country in general and to augment facilities for quality medical education in the under-served States. The PMSSY envisages for setting up six AIIMS like institutions one each in the States of Bihar (Patna), Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal), Orissa (Bhubaneshwar), Rajasthan (Jodhpur), Chhattisgarh (Raipur) and Uttaranchal (Rishikesh) at an estimated cost of Rs.332 crores per institution. Each institution will have 850 bedded hospital... [read full story]