Mangalagiri (AP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi today dedicated the new campus of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Mangalagiri to the nation.
Inaugurating the premier medical institution on virtual mode, the Prime Minister recalled the time when all key development programs were carried out in New Delhi alone and highlighted that the present government changed the trend and took the Government of India to every corner of the nation.
Shri Modi said that today marks the inauguration of AIIMS Mangalagiri along with four other AIIMS at Rajkot, Raebareli, Bathinda and Kalyani. “The developing India is getting work done at a fast pace, especially when you look at these 5 AIIMSs”, he added.
He pointed out that the nation had only one AIIMS for 50 years of independence, that too in Delhi. He added that even though only seven AIIMS were commissioned during the seven decades of independence, some of them couldn’t be completed.
“In the last 10 days, the nation has witnessed the foundation stone laying and inauguration of seven new AIIMS”, the Prime Minister remarked, highlighting that the present government has accomplished things at a faster pace than what was done in the last 70 years, thereby taking the country on the path of development.
He also mentioned laying the foundation stone and dedicating more than 200 health infrastructure projects including medical colleges, satellite centers of multi-speciality hospitals and centers for the treatment of worrying ailments.
The Prime Minister said that the pandemic could be handled in a credible manner due to the improvements in the healthcare system and infrastructure in the last 10 years.
He mentioned the unprecedented expansion of AIIMS, Medical Colleges and Critical Care Infrastructure. There are more than 1.5 lakh Ayushman Arogya Mandirs in villages for small ailments.
The Prime Minister said that today, the number of medical colleges has reached 706 from 387 in 2014, more than 1 lakh MBBS seats from 50 thousand ten years ago, 70 thousand post-graduate seats, up from 30 thousand in 2014. More doctors will come out of these colleges in the next few years than the number of doctors in the entire 70 years since independence, he said.
The PM virtually dedicated the AIIMS in Mangalagiri from Rajkot on Sunday. The Mangalagiri AIIMS project, costing Rs 1,618.23 crore, spans 183.11 acres and features 960 beds. Additionally, it houses a 125-seat medical college, said Madhabananda Kar, Director and CEO of the AIIMS Mangalagiri.
The foundation stone for the AIIMS, Mangalagiri was laid by then Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare J. P. Nadda in December 2015 after the Union Cabinet approved the project with an outlay of Rs 1,618.23 core, he said.
Since its inception, more than 15.06 lakh patients have been given healthcare service at OPD while 21,036 patients received IPD treatment in the institute.
As many as 12,824 emergency admission, 4,937 major surgeries, 2,343 minor surgeries, 667 deliveries, and 2,430 dialysis conducted in the AIIMS, the Director Prof. Dr Madhabananda Kar informed.