PM announces major initiatives in Assam
Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a series of projects worth over Rs. 3,400 crore in Guwahati, Assam. During the event, he inaugurated AIIMS Guwahati and three other medical colleges and laid the foundation stone for the Assam Advanced Health Care Innovation Institute (AAHII). The Prime Minister had laid the foundation stone for this state-of-the-art hospital in May 2017. With a capacity of 750 beds, including 30 AYUSH beds, AIIMS Guwahati will have an annual intake capacity of 100 MBBS students and provide world-class healthcare facilities to the people of Northeast India.
Modi also distributed Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) cards while launching ‘Aapke Dwar Ayushman’. The PM remarked that the previous governments had neglected the Northeast region, but his administration has made it more accessible to the people. Additionally, the PM inaugurated three medical colleges – Nalbari Medical College, Nagaon Medical College, and Kokrajhar Medical College – with each having an attached 500-bed teaching hospital with OPD/IPD services, emergency services, ICU facilities, OT, and diagnostic facilities.
The launch of the ‘Aapke Dwar Ayushman’ campaign is aimed at achieving the PM’s vision of reaching every beneficiary and ensuring 100% saturation of welfare schemes. The PM distributed AB-PMJAY cards to three representative beneficiaries, followed by the distribution of approximately 1.1 crore AB-PMJAY cards across all districts of the state. The AAHII, which will be built at a cost of approximately Rs. 546 crores, will promote cutting-edge research and development in medicine and healthcare, address unique health problems in India, and facilitate the development of new technologies.
