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Saturday, 11 April 2015

Kerala to get AIIMS: Minister

Dismissing concerns over delay in granting All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to the state, Union Health Minister J P Nadda assured that the state will get AIIMS. ''The Centre is committed to start AIIMS in all the states. Kerala is one of the states where we are going to start it,'' he said.
Nadda made the assurance after laying the foundation stone for new women’s hostel building, dental College additional block at the Medical College here. The government had given a memorandum related to AIIMS, he said. ''We respect the sentiments of the state regarding AIIMS and assure that we will go forward with it,'' he said.
Nadda also said that the Centre has received representation of four locations that have been identified by the state government for setting up AIIMS. ''We have decided to go ahead with the proposal and a team will come here and decide on it,'' he said.

He said that though health is a state subject, the Centre would always suport the state's initiatives. '' I assure you that whatever needed here will be taken care of. The state will gets its due share to keep the pace of development,'' he said.


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