Union Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad has announced that National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Cardio Care Centre(NCCC) would be set up at the second campus of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at village Badhasa in Jhajjar district of Haryana. He also said that AIIMS-2 would be developed as a world-class institution and Expression of Interest has already been called for drafting the master plan of AIIMS through the international bidding.
Azad was talking to mediapersons after inaugurating the Outreach OPD of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) today at Badhsa, which is 17 kilometers from Gurgaon on Gurgaon-Badli Road in Haryana . Accompanied by Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Azad also launched the free medicine facility at AIIMS-2, as per which generic medicines would be provided free of cost to all the patients getting treatment at the OOPD.
On the occasion, Union Health Minister said that the AIIMS OPD would serve as alternate OPD of the Delhi AIIMS and it would not only serve the state of Haryana but the whole country. The waiting period of OPD at Delhi AIIMS would be decreased considerably and the people of far reaching Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala would also happily come to Badhsa as the waiting period is bigger in AIIMS.
Azad said that the heart and cancer diseases were increasing in modern day lifestyle. The need was felt for national level institutes. NCI would have 600 beds, whereas the total number of beds would be more than 2100 in AIIMS-2. He said that NCI would be the biggest Cancer Institute in the country and bigger than even the Tata Cancer Institute, Mumbai.
He said that the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi is a premier institute of the Government of India in the area of medical education, research and patient care.
On this occasion, Haryana Chief Minister Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced that Badhsa would be connected through four-lane road to New Delhi. He also announced that Gurgaon-Badli road, on which AIIMS-2 is situated, would be four-laned with an investment of about Rs 250 Crore.
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