Haryana’s first AIIMS to be built at Manethi village in Rewari: Nadda

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, February 26

The government on Tuesday said the country’s 22nd AIIMS will be built at Manethi in Haryana’s Rewari and this will be the first AIIMS in Haryana.

In a statement, Health Minister JP Nadda said there should be no confusion in anyone’s minds about the fact that the AIIMS Rewari is a project separate from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at Jhajjar.

“The Jhajjar institute is an extension of AIIMS New Delhi campus. AIIMS Rewari (at village Manethi), announced in the Interim Budget 2019-20 will be the 22nd AIIMS to come up in India and this will be separate to the Jhajjar project. Like other AIIMS, AIIMS announced for Rewari will be set up under Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY).This will be a greenfield project for which funds have been given separately by the Government of India,” Nadda said.

He said the Haryana AIIMS will be built at the cost of Rs 1,299 crores on 223 acre.

“The Institution will consist of a hospital with a capacity of 750 beds, trauma center facilities, medical college with an intake of 100 MBBS students per year, nursing college with an intake of 60 BSc (Nursing) students per year, residential complexes, 1000 seat auditorium and allied facilities broadly on the pattern of AIIMS, New Delhi. The hospital will have 25 specialty and super specialty departments, including operation theatres. It will also have an AYUSH department with 30 beds for providing treatment facilities in traditional system of medicine,” the minister said.

NCI at Jhajjar, he added, will have 710 patient care beds dedicated for cancer prevention, treatment, research and education. It will be equipped with 25 Operation Theatres, 5 linear accelerators, 4 PET Scanners, 3 Brachy-therapy, 2 CT Scanners, 2 MRI scanners and more.

“NCI will also have the first Public Sector Proton Facility of India which will bring a paradigm shift in cancer treatment. India’s first public sector Robotic Core Clinical Laboratory has been established at NCI at a cost of Rs 15 Crores. This laboratory can perform over 60000 tests in a day and can give reports in two hours,” Nadda said.