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Articles 935 views February 4, 2021
Getting proper healthcare is the basic right for every citizen of our country. But if we look at the data, more than 1 million people die every day because of the unavailability of proper healthcare facilities. Apart from this, around 700 million people do not have access to specialist care as more than 80% of specialists like to work in urban areas. Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) was launched in March 2006 to correct regional inequalities when it comes to the accessibility of affordable healthcare services. One of the other aims of this plan was to ensure the expansion of facilities promoting superior medical education in the under-served states so that the problem of lower specialists can be solved.
One of the main thoughts behind launching Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana was to ensure three E’s — Expand, Equity and Excellence in the field of healthcare. One of the basic needs to access top-notch health care facilities is the expansion of tertiary care facilities, and this plan ensures the same by providing equal distribution to different population backgrounds.
We will talk here about the objective of the AIIMS Act, different implementation phases & other details associated with the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana. Keep reading to know more!
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There are mainly two components of Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana. The first component is to ensure the setting up of AIIMS like institutions, and the second one is the upgradation of Government Medical College (GMC) or Institutions.
A total of 22 new AIIMS have been announced under the AIIMS Act so far of which 6 are already functional. Each new AIIMS should have the following things –
Whereas 75 projects have been chosen for upgradation under different phases. Each project would add up the following things –
You must have heard about the excellence of healthcare that people usually get in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Well, to ensure the creation of advanced tertiary healthcare infrastructure, world-class medical education and research facilities in different parts of the country, the government has been setting up new AIIMS to achieve the following objectives-
To ensure the above objectives, AIIMS can perform the following activities that you can check!
The expansion of healthcare in different parts of India through setting up new AIIMS and upgrading of Government Medical Colleges cannot be done in a short period. That’s why Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana has been divided into many phases. We are showing them below. Please check!
Phases of Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana | AIIMS | GMC Upgradation |
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Phase 1 | Bhubaneswar, Bhopal, Jodhpur, Patna, Raipur, Rishikesh | Total of 19 GMCs in places like Tirupati, Trivandrum, Madurai Medical College, Bangalore, Lucknow, Varanasi, Hyderabad, etc. |
Phase 2 | Raebareli (U.P.) | |
Phase 3 | Total of 39 GMCs in places like Berhampur, Burla, Patiala, Udaipur, Warangal, etc. | |
Phase 4 | Mangalagiri (Andhra Pradesh), Gorakhpur (U.P.), Kalyani (West Bengal) Nagpur (Maharashtra) | Total of 13 GMCs (Agra, Kanpur, Cuttack, Indore, Jaipur, Surat, Patna, Bihar, Bhagalpur, Gaya, GTBH, Bilaspur) |
Phase 5 | Awantipora (Kashmir), Samba (Jammu), Darbhanga (Bihar), Bilaspur (H.P.), Madurai (Tamilnadu), Guwahati (Assam), | 5 (A) - SCTIMST Trivandrum & IMS BHU (U.P.) 5(B) - RIO at IMS BHU, and IGIMS Patna |
Phase 6 | Rajkot (Gujarat). Deoghar (Jharkhand), | |
Phase 7 | Bibinagar ( Telangana) | |
Phase 8 | Manethi (Haryana) |