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Modi inaugurates AIIMS Assam; targets earlier govts over lack of health infra

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Updated: April 14th, 2023, 15:27 IST
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PM Modi inaugurates Northeast's first AIIMS in Assam (Image: mansukhmandviya/Twitter)

PM Modi inaugurates Northeast's first AIIMS in Assam (Image: mansukhmandviya/Twitter)

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Guwahati: Inaugurating the first All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) of the northeastern region in Guwahati, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday slammed the previous governments for doing precious little to uplift the healthcare infrastructure of the country.

Speaking on the occasion, Modi pointed out, “The first AIIMS was built in Delhi during the 1950s. People from all corners went to AIIMS Delhi for treatment, but no government understood the need of setting up AIIMS campuses all over the country.”

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“It was the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government that took the initiative of building AIIMS in other cities,” he added.

Following the departure of Vajpayee’s government in 2004, Modi said the projects were stalled, and after 2014, when the BJP came to power at the Centre, the process of setting up AIIMS across the country got underway.

He said, “We started to build 15 AIIMS campuses, and today at least more than 50 per cent of them are functional. The teaching of medical courses and providing treatment began in those institutes.”

The Prime Minister also inaugurated three new medical colleges in Assam along with initiating the foundation work of a multidisciplinary, state-of-the-art hospital at IIT Guwahati.

Taking a potshot at the Opposition, Modi claimed that due to the erroneous principles of previous governments, the healthcare system took a beating.

According to him, the country experienced a huge shortage of medical professionals earlier.

“Prior to 2014, there were only 150 medical colleges in the country. In the last nine years, the BJP-led government has focused on that sector, and we have built 300 new medical colleges. Now, there are more than 1 lakh seats in MBBS courses. The PG seats also increased multiple times,” Modi mentioned.

He also said that work is on to further increase the number.

PM Modi claimed that reservations in medical seats and providing medical education in regional languages were introduced to facilitate people from marginal backgrounds studying healthcare courses.

Without naming the Congress, he alleged that due to the credit-hungry nature of others, the northeast was lacking in development for many years.

He said, “Now, wherever I go and talk about development. I can see a new illness among some people. They keep on complaining about why they were not given credit.”

Due to this credit-hungry nature, they (the opposition) earlier felt the northeast was too far. But, we do not need credit; rather, the BJP worked with ‘sewa-bhav’, and you can see the results. Today, anyone who comes to Assam and the northeast for the first time talks about the enormous development the region has witnessed in the last few years,” he claimed.

The Prime Minister also said, “Along with better connectivity, the northeast is now witnessing a change in the social sector too. The MBBS seats have been doubled here. A number of new medical colleges have been set up.”

He said that all these were possible due to a stable and strong government at the centre since 2014.

“I feel lucky to serve you. It is the love of the people of Assam that brings me here repeatedly,” Modi said.

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