Centre to set up six AIIMS-like institutions including one at Rishikesh ( Uttarakhand )

The Centre would set up six AIIMS-like health institutions across the
country with construction on the sites expected to begin shortly,
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss today said.

Ramadoss said that the construction of houses and hostels would start
early this year and would be completed next year.

"Work on hospital medical college would be completed by 2010-11," he
said at the social editor's conference here.

Plans for the construction of the hospital and medical college as well
as residential complexes in Bhopal, Jodhpur and Rishikesh have been
approved and the process for selection of Project Management
Consultants for the institutions has begun.

Explaining the progress of work, he said each AIIMS site would be
treated as a separate and independent project instead of clubbing all
six together and that the construction of housing complex should be
separated from that of the hospital and medical college, so that it is
constructed earlier.

Under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY), it had been
decided to set up one AIIMS-like institution each in Patna, Raipur,
Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur and Rishikesh, Ramadoss said.

The estimated cost of setting up each institute is Rs 332 crore.

The state governments have provided the land. The construction of
boundary wall around the sites has already been completed, he added.