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Bhubaneswar: All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar, will soon get a radiotherapy unit for cancer patients, said Union health secretary BP Sharma during his visit to the institute along with Union health minister JP Nadda Saturday.
“We have been taking care of all the AIIMS spread across the country. We are committed to extend all possible support in terms of infrastructure and facilities. In the next six months, AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, is most likely to start offering radiotherapy facility for the people of the state,” said Sharma in his address.
Union health minister JP Nadda said the central government, in an effort to decentralise the powers of the heads of AIIMS institutes, has entrusted on the AIIMS directors the powers to sanction work related to their campuses. “This has yielded overwhelming response. In the last one year, the director of AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, has sanctioned work worth Rs 50 crore due to our decentralisation policy,” he said.
Nadda and a delegation of bureaucrats and local MPs visited the AIIMS campus in the city to inaugurate the AYUSH Hospital, a new academic block and other facilities on AIIMS premises.