Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 14th April 2023 inaugurated the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Guwahati and three other medical colleges in Assam during his one-day visit to the state on the occasion of ‘Rongali Bihu’. The super-speciality hospital will provide healthcare not only to people in Assam but also in other northeastern states. It is the first AIIMS in the northeast region of the country. Union Cabinet approved the setting up of AIIMS at Guwahati, Assam at a cost of Rs. 1123 crore in May 2017. 

AIIMS, Guwahati has been built at the cost of more than Rs. 1120 crores. It is a state-of-the-art hospital with a capacity of 750 beds including 30 AYUSH beds. This hospital will have an annual intake capacity of 100 MBBS students annually and provide world-class health facilities to the people of the Northeast.

 

The three medical colleges at Nalbari, Nagaon and Kokrajhar have been built at around Rs. 615 crore, Rs. 600 crore and Rs. 535 crore, respectively. Each medical college has an attached 500-bed teaching hospital with OPD/IPD services including emergency, ICU, OT, and diagnostic facilities.  Each medical college will have an annual intake capacity of 100 MBBS students.

 

He also laid the foundation stone of Assam Advanced Health Care Innovation Institute.  AAHII, to be built at a cost of about Rs. 546 crores will facilitate cutting-edge inventions and R&D in medicine and healthcare, identify the nation's unique problems related to health and promote the development of new technologies for solving those problems.

PM Modi remarked that the health infrastructure of Assam and the Northeast has found new strength as the Northeast gets its first AIIMS and the state of Assam gets three new medical colleges. He underlined that the foundation stone for a 500-bed super speciality hospital has also been laid for advanced research in collaboration with IIT Guwahati.

PM Modi said that in the last 9 years, the government has worked on a huge scale to boost medical infrastructure and medical professionals in the country. Highlighting the developments in the field of medical infrastructure, Prime said that approximately 300 medical colleges became functional in the last 9 years compared to only 150 medical colleges a decade before 2014. He also added that the number of MBBS seats in the country doubled to around 1 lakh in the last 9 years, while the PG seats have risen 110 percent. He mentioned that in recent years the government started work on 15 AIIMS and treatments and courses have already begun in most of them. “AIIMS Guwahati too is an example of the fact that our government fulfills all the resolutions”, the Prime Minister said.