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The people of Haryana, Punjab, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan are all set to be benefitted in a big way as National Cancer Institute, Medical College and a Nursing College would also be set up at the second campus of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at village Badhsa in Haryana.
Apart from Outreach OPD studded with most modern facilities, which would start functioning within next four months, the AIIMS-II will also have a 500 bedded General Hospital and 400 bedded Cancer Hospital. Haryana Chief Minister Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda has described it as a boon for the people of the State. He said that AIIMS-II would prove to be a milestone for the development of the state.
The National Cancer Institute would be set up over 50 acres plot. It would have advanced research facilities in bioethics, molecular genetics, cancer genetics, genomics, proteomics, translational research, cancer vaccines, radiation research, diagnostic drug discovery and drug development, clinical drug development, clinical research in therapeutics, preventive oncology, radiobiology, occupational research, epidemiology, resource development, stem cell research and palliative care research. It would have various departments like radiation oncology, medical oncology, radiology, nuclear medicine, tumor patho-biology, lab medicine, anaesthesiology and hospice and preventive oncology.
The construction of second campus of AIIMS has started as the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad laid the foundation stone of AIIMS Outreach OPD yesterday. Mr Azad said that this AIIMS would perhaps be bigger than the AIIMS in Delhi and many more facilities would be added, which could not be implemented in Delhi for lack of space. A Nursing School would also be set up through National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). The national institutes or centres would be in the areas of NCDs like cancer and cardio-vascular diseases and other cross cutting themes such as infectious diseases, nutrition, affordable technologies and regenerative sciences.
While accepting the demands put by the local MP Mr Deepender Singh Hooda and appreciating the urgency of providing quick relief to the people, the Union Government has taken up the setting up of OOPD on priority basis so that the health facilities and treatment could be provided to the people immediately. AIIMS is a big project and generally take five to six years to complete so the OOPD would provide health services through several departments, including General Medicine, Orthopaedics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Paediatrics, Ophthalmology, ENT, Psychiatry and General Surgery. Besides it will offer diagnostic facilities and Digital X Ray as well as telemedicine facility would also be available. The Outreach OPD has been designed to handle about 1,000 patients per day. Fully air-conditioned and well equipped OOPD would take four months to complete and start functioning from this very year
The AIIMS would have research institute, where the best health policies would be drafted. The AIIMS would house National Institute where Cancer, heart and infectious diseases would be treated. Mr Azad said that new technologies to provide health treatment at reasonable prices would also be researched. The Union Health Ministry has ambitious plans for this project, which were indicated when the Union Health Minister said that they were ‘planning to have some national institutes of excellence there that would contribute to health research as well as framing of national health policies and programmes for implementation’.
Union Health Minister, Mr Azad also acknowledged the emergence of Haryana as a number one State in different fields of development like education, agriculture productivity, milk productivity, sports, bravery and secularism.
Health facilities in the State will get a big boost with the number of prestigious health projects coming up in Haryana and the State would be able to also emerge as a leader in the field of health.
