According to the health minister, setting up of new AIIMS in various states will lead to employment generation for nearly 3000 people in various faculty and non-faculty posts in each of the AIIMS
The Union Cabinet has approved the continuation of Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) beyond 12th five year plan to 2019-20, with a financial outlay of Rs 14, 832 crore. Under this scheme, new AIIMS are established and government medical colleges are upgraded.
Informing that the government is consciously working towards improving health infrastructure as well as health manpower in the country, JP Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare (MoH&FW) said “Setting up of new AIIMS would not only transform health education and training but will also address the shortfall of health care professionals. Construction of new AIIMS is fully funded by the central government and the operations and maintenance expenses on new AIIMS are also fully borne by the central government.”
Nadda further added that setting up of new AIIMS in various states will lead to employment generation for nearly 3000 people in various faculty and non-faculty posts in each of the AIIMS. For each functional AIIMS established under PMSSY, a total of 4089 posts were created for a 960 bedded hospital.
Highlighting the benefits of the scheme, Nadda informed that each new AIIMS will add 100 UG (MBBS) and 60 BSc (Nursing) seats, 15-20 super speciality departments and around 750 hospital beds. In each GMC up-gradation project, 8-10 super speciality departments get added on an average and an up-gradation project also gives benefit of adding of around 15 new PG seats on an average.
“As per data of current functional AIIMS, it is expected that each new AIIMS would cater to around 1500 OPD patients / day and around 1000 IPD patients / month,” he informed.
“PMSSY aims to correct regional imbalances while availing affordable, reliable tertiary healthcare services and also at augmenting facilities for quality medical education in different regions of the country. It will result in reduction of disparities to access quality health services between the states and regions. The scheme will also address imbalances in human resources development and in the availability of quality trained medical, nursing manpower for public healthcare delivery system through establishment of medical and nursing colleges. Overall the PMSSY scheme will improve the health outcomes through adequate and timely intervention of medical and health services,” Nadda said.