PM Modi inaugurates AIIMS Guwahati, three other medical colleges in Assam

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Guwahati and introduced 3 different scientific faculties in Assam throughout his one-day go to to the country at the event of `Rongali Bihu`.

He additionally laid the inspiration stone of the Assam Advanced Health Care Innovation Institute (AAHII) at IIT-Guwahati, and released a healthcare scheme to offer unfastened scientific remedy really well worth Rs. five lakh every yr to eleven million beneficiaries.

The 3 scientific faculties at Nalbari, Nagaon and Kokrajhar had been constructed at a price of round Rs. 615 crore, Rs. six hundred crore and Rs. 535 crore, respectively.

The AIIMS campus, constructed at a price of Rs. 1,123 crore, is a one-of-a-type healthcare facility withinside the complete northeastern region. It could have an annual consumption ability of one hundred scientific college students each yr. The basis stone for the institute turned into laid with the aid of using PM Modi in 2017.

The high minister disbursed Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) playing cards to a few consultant beneficiaries, observed with the aid of using the distribution of approximately eleven million AB-PMJAY playing cards in all districts.

The PM indexed the tasks taken with the aid of using the Centre withinside the healthcare quarter over the last 9 years, and blamed the preceding governments for “failing to open devices of AIIMS throughout the united states”.

“In the beyond 9 years, there was lots of debate at the development of verbal exchange infrastructure withinside the northeast. Along with that, there was an incredible development in social infrastructure as well, each withinside the training and fitness sectors,” he stated.

Assam leader minister Himanta Biswa Sarma who turned into additionally gift on the occasion in conjunction with different Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders praised the high minister for improvement initiatives withinside the country.

“We are seeking to fulfil the PM`s intention of getting a scientific university in every district. Today, the country were given 3 new ones taking that tally to 12. In the subsequent 3-four years, we are able to take that discern to 23 scientific faculties in Assam,” Sarma stated on the occasion.

Addressing the general public occasion, Modi later took a swipe at competition events and accused them of “feeling uneasy” every time he talks approximately improvement that has taken region throughout the state because the BJP-led authorities got here to electricity on the Centre in 2014.

“These days, we’re noticing a brand new disease. Whenever I talk the improvement that has taken region withinside the beyond 9 years, a few humans experience very uneasy. They bitch that they’ve additionally dominated the united states for decades, however they don`t get credit score,” Modi stated on the occasion held at Changsari at the outskirts of Guwahati.

“Hunger for credit score and the mentality of ruling the hundreds has negatively impacted the united states lots. Those who dominated in advance idea of the Northeast as a remote region and created a feel of alienation. We paintings with a feel of selfless provider and willpower for the hundreds,” he added.

Later withinside the day, the PM will participate withinside the platinum jubilee celebrations of the Gauhati excessive court. In the evening, he’ll attend a Bihu dance overall performance with the aid of using over 10,000 participants.

Sarma had stated that it`s his authorities`s goal to “organise the most important Bihu dance overall performance at a unmarried venue and make it to the Guinness Book of World Records withinside the folk-dance category”.