Gujarat will have AIIMS very soon: Union Health Minister J P Nadda
Ahmedabad: Union Health Minister J P Nadda said Gujarat will get an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) very soon. “We have already started the procedure of evaluating various parameters to set up an AIIMS in Gujarat. The state will get an AIIMS very soon,” Nadda told reporters in Rajkot. However, the minister did not clarify which city in the state would get the premiere health institution.
In his Budget speech, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had announced that Gujarat and Jharkhand would get one AIIMS each. Gujarat government has identified Rajkot and Vadodara as the two probable cities which can be selected for the proposed AIIMS project.
Nadda along with Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani was in Rajkot to lay foundation stone for Rs 150 crore super speciality hospital, to be built under the ‘Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna’, an official release said.
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