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.
Sources: The new indian express
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