All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) Rajkot has started the academic session for its first batch of 50 MBBS students on December 21 from its temporary campus in Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Medical College.
Gujarat CM, Vijay Rupani virtually inaugurated the 1st academic session of AIIMS Rajkot through a video conference in the presence of Union Minister of State for Health, Ashwin Chaubey and Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.
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Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan joined the video conference from New Delhi and addressed the event stating that AIIMS Rajkot was a part of Phase Six of Pradhan Mantri Swastha Suraksha Yojana. The institute will be a 750-bed hospital with super speciality and multiple speciality departments.
AIIMS Rajkot will also have an 1195 crore outlay including 185 crores for the state of the art medical equipment. Vardhan said that the institute will have 60 nursing and 125 MBBS seats in the near future.
He said that AIIMS campuses were a concerted effort to ensure quality health care to each and every citizen of India and were being set up in various parts of the country to promote the regional spread of super-speciality healthcare.
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Vardhan said that the long term purpose of establishing new AIIMS was to generate wellness among the people while the short term goal was to reduce the gaps in affordable tertiary health care.
He added, “The government is making an endeavour to increase the availability of MBBS seats to 80,000, to bridge the gap in requirement of doctors. From 2013-14 onwards, the number of MBBS seats in the six new AIIMS has gone up to 600, providing an opportunity to an additional 300 MBBS aspirants”
The Union Health Minister also said that with the addition of AIIMS Rajkot, the total government MBBS seats in the country has risen to 42,495. Moreover, as the institute shifts from its temporary campus, seats will increase further. He added that the aim of the health ministry was to achieve a doctor-patient ratio of 1:1000 by 2021 as mandated by WHO.
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Union Minister Chaubey added that it was the dream of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee that every state should have an AIIMS campus. He pointed out that 6 AIIMS campuses were set up in the time of late Union Minister Sushma Swaraj. He also said that permission for 22 AIIMS campuses has been given.
CM Vijay Rupani said that the previous governments in the center had denied the permissions to the state for setting up an AIIMS campus. He added that only after PM Narendra Modi came into power, the state received permission. The CM informed that land for AIIMS Rajkot has already been earmarked and PM Modi will soon lay the foundation stone.
He concluded by saying, “It is a matter of great pleasure for us that when Narendra Modi became prime minister, he granted permission for AIIMS to be set up across the country. Previous governments did not pay much attention to the health sector,"
Deputy CM Nitin Patel said that the government has established around 1 to 2 new medical institutes every year to fulfil the need of doctors in the state.
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