[Assam] Why no AIIMS in Assam / NE ?

[Pradip Kumar Datta]

Delhi: The Central Government has approved the establishment 
of an All 
India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) at Sarita Vihar, New Delhi as a Centre of 
Excellence focused on fundamental research, drug safety evaluation, 
standardization, quality control and scientific validation of Ayurvedic 
medicine. 

The institute would also offer post-graduate and doctoral 
courses in the aforesaid disciplines. 

In a written reply to a question 
in the Rajya Sabha today, Mrs. Panabaka Lakshmi, Minister of State for Health 
& family Welfare said that the institute will have a 200-bed research and 
referral hospital for facilitating clinical research. 

"The All India 
Institute of Ayurveda will be setup on the lines of the All India Institute of 
Medical Sciences (AIIMS)", Lakshmi added. 

It would be fully functional 
by the end of the Eleventh Five Year Plan i.e. by March, 2012. 

When 
fully functional, the institute will treat about 250-300 O.P.D. patients daily 
in addition to IPD patients initially. 

Meanwhile, Union Health Minister 
Anbumani Ramadoss has also said that six new All 
India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, 
Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand will be ready in the next three 
years. 

"The AIIMS in Bihar would not only help people of the state but 
also residents of Nepal and Assam who lack good healthcare facilities", he 
added. 
Soruce: 
http://indiaedunews.net/Delhi/Govt_to_setup_Ayurvedic_institute_on_lines_of_AIIMS_6439/

Why no AIIMS in Assam / NE ?