All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Raipur and Jodhpur have new directors appointed by the government. AIIMS Raipur will be headed by the Nitin M Nagarkar and Sanjeev Misra will head the AIIMS Jodhpur.
Under the first phase of the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY), the central government has also decided to set up six new AIIMS in Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Patna, Rishikesh and Raipur. The move is aimed to overcome the regional imbalances in providing the quality healthcare and to attain self-sufficiency in medical education at graduate and postgraduate level.
Two more AIIMS, Rae Bareli (Uttar Pradesh) and Raiganj (West Bengal) have been approved under the second phase of the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY).
One of the officials said ‘The move to set up more premier medical institution aims at reducing the workload of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, which caters to a large number of patients’.