Karnataka to have AIIMS-like hospital soon: Minister

Bengaluru, Dec 29 : Karnataka would soon have an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), said state Health and Medical Education Minister K. Sudhkar on Tuesday.
“As we are committed to have one AIIMS in our state, we are in the process of obtaining the central government’s permission to set it up and make it functional soon,” Sudhakar told reporters at an official function here.
The central government plans to set up 22 AIIMS or one in each state across the country in compliance with a national health policy that was formulated in 2002 by the previous NDA government under the then Prime Minister A.B.Vajpayee.
The NDA government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has permitted setting up of 157 medical colleges over the last 6 years since it came to power in 2014.
As setting up a medical college requires Rs 600-700 crore, the Minister said the state government would build a medical college in every district across the state under the public-private partnership (PPP) model as in Gujarat.
“Our aim is to have a medical college with a super-specialty hospital attached to it in every district across the state to provide best healthcare so that people need not go to cities for treatment,” asserted Sudhakar, a medical doctor by profession.