PM Modi inaugurates northeast’s first AIIMS in Guwahati

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Guwahati. The prime minister dedicated the Rs 1,123 crore medical facility, the first AIIMS in the North East, to the nation and also virtually inaugurated three medical colleges at Nalbari, Nagaon, and Kokrajhar.

Built at a cost of more than Rs. 1120 crores, AIIMS Guwahati is a state-of-the-art Hospital having capacity of 750 beds including 30 AYUSH beds.

This hospital will have an annual intake capacity of 100 MBBS students every year. The Hospital will provide world-class health facilities to the people of Northeast.

Executive Director Ashok Puranik said that most of the clinical departments are functional with the out patient department handling an average of 150 patients per day.

The services include day care, pharmacy, laboratory facilities and radiological investigations.

"We are taking baby steps at present with 150 beds to become functional from April 14, but within the next three or four years, the hospital will be fully functional with a capacity of 750 beds," Puranik said.
The hospital will provide "high-quality patient care services" in various specialities and super specialities including cardiology, neurology, burns and plastic surgery, cardiothoracic and vascular surgery and interventional radiology, the official said.

AIIMS, Guwahati was established with the three-pronged objective of state-of-the-art patient care, high-quality medical education and cutting-edge research, which will not only benefit Assam, but also its neighbouring states of Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Manipur, he said.

"The institute aims to correct regional imbalances in the availability of affordable and reliable tertiary healthcare services, to augment facilities for quality medical education and providing comprehensive, quality and holistic tertiary care health services to the people of Assam and neighbouring states," Puranik said.

It will also provide cancer care, advanced laparoscopy facilities, trauma care and "futuristic interventions like robotic surgery, organ transplantation, regenerative medicine, genetics and simulation lab".
AIIMS-Guwahati was planned under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna (PMSSY).

The Union Cabinet approved its setting up at Changsari in Kamrup district at a cost of Rs 1,123 crore in May 2017. The construction work began in 2019.