Union Health Minister issues clarification on status of NCI Jhajjar and AIIMS New Delhi

Shri Nadda added that as part of the vision of the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to have an AIIMS in every state,  AIIMS Rewari (at village Manethi), announced in the Interim Budget Speech of 2019-20 will be 22nd AIIMS to come up in the country and the 1st in Haryana. The site for this AIIMS has already been finalized at Manethi in Rewari, Haryana.

Like other AIIMS in the country, the AIIMS announced for Rewari will also be set up under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY). This will be a greenfield project for which funds have been given separately by the Government of India.

The proposed AIIMS will be built at the cost of Rs. 1299 crores on 223 acres of land. The Institution will consist of a hospital with a capacity of 750 beds, trauma centre facilities, a medical college with an intake of 100 MBBS students per year, the nursing college with an intake of 60 B.Sc. (Nursing) students per year, residential complexes, 1000 seat auditorium and allied facilities/services, broadly on the pattern of AIIMS, New Delhi. The hospital will have 25 Specialty/Super-Specialty Departments including Operation Theatres. It will also have an AYUSH department with 30 beds for providing treatment facilities in the traditional system of medicine.

The establishment of new AIIMS will provide super speciality health care to the people of Haryana and nearby areas. The Institute will also create a large pool of doctors and other health workers for the region that can be used at primary and secondary level institutions/facilities being created under the National Health Mission (NHM). It will take up research on region-specific diseases and provide for better control and cure of such diseases.

NCI at Jhajjar, on the other hand, will have 710 patient care beds dedicated for cancer prevention, treatment, research and education. NCI will be equipped with cutting edge technology and shall have 25 Operation Theatres, 5 Linear Accelerators, 4 PET Scanners, 3 Brachytherapy, 2 CT Scanners, 2MRI Scanners and much more. NCI will also have the 1st Public Sector Proton Facility of the Country which will be a new paradigm in the treatment of cancer patients in the Country. India’s first public sector Robotic Core Clinical Laboratory has been established at NCI at a cost of Rs. 15 Crores.

This Laboratory can perform over 60000 tests in a day and has the capability to give reports in two hours. NCI has also forayed into newer domains in public hospitals like advanced digital integration of Hospital Critical Care Systems and door to discharge paperless patient records.NCI shall focus on translational research on India Specific Cancers which shall enable early detection of cancers and better treatment outcomes.

Various countries like USA, France, UK, etc., have entered into research collaborations with NCI and research projects in related areas have already started under the said cooperation. NCI has also collaborated with the Department of AYUSH for research into the role of Indian Systems of Medicine in prevention and cure of cancers.