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AIIMS bags highest budget share among medical colleges, hospitals
Thursday February 28, 2013 08:26:27 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in the
national capital tops the list of hospitals and research
institutes to get the maximum allocation of Rs. 1,340 crore in the
budget for 2013-14.
India's health budget has been hiked by 28 percent with Finance
Minister P. Chidambaram allocating Rs.37,330 crore (Rs. $6962
million), with a special focus on medical education, training and
research.
Chidambaram said the focus of the government was "health for all".
Of the medical institutes, AIIMS got a major chunk, up from last
fiscal's Rs.1,284 crore. In 2011-12, it was Rs.1,062 crore.
The Delhi-based institute is among India's top medical colleges,
with its hospital daily catering to almost 8,000 patients, mostly
from the underprivileged sections. It has over 2,200 beds.
Safdarjung Hospital, adjacent to AIIMS, has been allocated Rs.565
crore, up from Rs.451.75 crore.
The Delhi-based Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital will get Rs. 403 crore
as compared to Rs.335 crore in the last fiscal. The Lady Hardinge
Medical College has been allocated Rs. 329 crore as against Rs.
191 crore in the previous year.
The Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER)
in Chandigarh has been allotted Rs.635 crore as against Rs.540
crore.
The Kalawati Saran hospital in the national capital, which caters
specifically to children, has got Rs.72 crore as against Rs.60
crore last year.
The government also allocated a huge chunk of the health budget on
setting up eight AIIMS-like institutes in the country.
A total of Rs.1975 crore has been earmarked for setting up the
super speciality medical centres as compared to Rs.1010 crore last
year.
The institutes are being constructed under the Pradhan Mantri
Swasthya Suraksha Yojana. These institutes will be established in
two phases. In the first phase, six such centres have been
established at Patna (Bihar), Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Bhopal
(Madhya Pradesh), Bhubaneswar (Odisha), Jodhpur (Rajasthan) and
Rishikesh (Uttarakhand).
In the second phase, two such institutes will come up in Uttar
Pradesh and West Bengal.
The aim behind setting up these institutes was to correct the
regional imbalance in the availability of affordable and reliable
healthcare services to the rural and poor populace.
Each hospital will have 960 beds and will provide undergraduate
medical education to 100 students per year. Postgraduate and
postdoctoral courses will also be offered.
Chidambaram said the six AIIMS-like institutes had admitted their
first batch of students in the academic session that commenced
September 2012.
The hospitals attached to the colleges will be functional in
2013-14.
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