AMN /Bhubaneswar
Union Health Minister J P Nadda Saturday said, 22 new AIIMS are coming up across the country under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Surakhya Yojana to reduce regional imbalance in the healthcare and tertiary fields. Addressing the first convocation of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here, he also said that ensuring the highest standards of medical education was a top priority for the government.
Admitting that there was a shortage of skilled human resources in the health sector at all levels, the health minister said the Centre has planned for a rapid expansion of medical education.
Mr Nadda said, many initiatives such as increasing the retirement age of doctors to 65 years, setting up of more medical and nursing schools, multi-skilling of doctors to overcome the shortage of specialists, have been taken by the Centre to improve medical education. The health minister said, the AIIMS will soon introduce campus recruitment in order to retain students passing out of the institutes.
Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu and J.P. Nadda laid the foundation stones for two buildings at the AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, campus.
Happy to lay the foundation of stone of the #AIIMS, Bhubaneswar satellite Centre at Balasore, Odisa. A 300 bedded multispecialty hospital will be established in 24.91 acres of land, as a Satellite Centre for AIIMS Bhubaneswar. pic.twitter.com/WNSCF5rgpi
— Jagat Prakash Nadda (@JPNadda) August 25, 2018