Prime Minister Narendra Modi To Inaugurate AIIMS Bilaspur Next Year: JP Nadda

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the fully functional All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bilaspur next year, BJP national president JP Nadda said on Sunday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the fully functional All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bilaspur next year, BJP national president JP Nadda said on Sunday. Nadda, also a Rajya Sabha member, congratulated Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur and frontline workers for making the state the first in the country to fully vaccinate 100 per cent of its adult population against COVID-19.

Inaugurating the outpatient department of AIIMS in Bilaspur, Nadda said the health institute will be fully ready by June next year and hoped the prime minister will inaugurate it. As much as Rs 2,000 crore will be spent annually to run the institute while a total of Rs 44,000 crore will be set aside for the 22 AIIMS, he said during the programme organised to celebrate the state's remarkable feat.

Nadda, who is a native of Bilaspur, said though AIIMS Delhi and the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, had been built in and around 1960, no other premier health institute had been built in other parts of the country until 2014. Under Modi's leadership, 22 AIIMS are being built across the country, he said.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said India was able to manufacture 31-32 crore COVID-19 vaccines per month under Modi's "sincere and active leadership" and that the prime minister had relaxed norms, besides providing the vaccine makers every possible help in research and manufacturing.