NCI and NCCC to be set up at Badhsa AIIMS

by Haryananewswire

CHANDIGARH, NOV 24

Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Gulam Nabi Azad today announced that National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Cardio Care Centre(NCCC) would be setup at the second campus of All India Institute of Medical  Sciences(AIIMS) at Badhsa in Jhajjar district of Haryana.

          Accompanied by Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Mr Azad was talking to mediapersons after inaugurating the Outreach OPD of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Badhsa , 17 kilometer from Gurgaon on Gurgaon-Badli Road in Haryana, today.

          Mr Azad also announced that AIIMS-2 would be developed as a world class international level institution and Expression of Interest has already been invited for drafting its master plan through international bidding.

AIIMS-2 Campus is being setup over an area of 300 acres, which has been provided free of cost by the Haryana Government. A committee headed by Union Health Secretary would finalize the selection of world class master plan for the AIIMS-2. Accompanied by Haryana Chief Minister Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Mr 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.

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 also 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 the AIIMS. He said that this is the first OPD  where free medicines would be provided. The Outreach OPD comprises of the following departments - General Medicine, Orthopaedics, Obstetrics and  Gynecology, Paediatrics, Ophthalmology, ENT, Anasthesia and General Surgery. It would also have diagnostic and laboratory facilities, he added.

The pharmacy and the laboratory will be operated by HLL Lifecare Limited, a Public Sector Undertaking of the Union Ministry of Health. This is being done for the first time in the history of AIIMS and the entire OPD operations will be computerized from registration to prescriptions. All patient records will be kept in electronic format, he further added.

Mr 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. It will be a comprehensive cancer centre having all the facilities to deal with various types of cancers including research and development.

The National Cardiac Care Centre is also proposed to be established at Badhsa.The All India Institute of Medical Sciences has plans to establish several super-speciality and world-class research facilities at Badhsa, he added.   

 Mr Azad said that the foundation stone of Outreach OPD was laid by him on  May 30, 2012 with a promise to operationalise it within six months. Today, that promise has been fulfilled. He thanked the Chief Minister of Haryana, Mr Hooda and MP Mr Deepender Singh Hooda for their support in operationalising the second campus of AIIMS in Haryana. 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. Patients from all parts of the country come to AIIMS, New Delhi. But due to the high number of patients visiting the institute, the infrastructure at AIIMS is bursting at the seams with most departments handling workload in excess of their designed capacity. As a result of this, patients have to wait for long periods for various procedures and services. For this reason, the need for expansion of AIIMS was felt and thus the Outreach OPD at Badsha, Jhajjar has been conceived and designed to handle approximately 1,000 patients per day.

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. The Government was fully considerate of connecting Badhsa with other cities. The KMP Expressway is also near   the AIIMS-2, he added.

Mr Hooda thanked the UPA Chairperson Mrs Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Mr Gulam Nabi Azad for giving this prestigious project to Haryana. He said that AIIMS-2 would be bigger than AIIMS and benefit not only Haryana but also the adjoining states. He assured all assistance and support on behalf of the State Government for the project.     

Rohtak MP Mr Deepender Singh Hooda described AIIMS-2 as a big gift to the state of Haryana and would increase the pace of development in the whole area.

Haryana Health Minister Rao Narender, Education Minister Mrs Geeta Bhukkal, AIIMS Director Prof R.C. Deka, MLAs Mr Naresh Sharma, Mr Jangbir Malik, Political Advisor to Chief Minister Prof Virender, Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Mr Shiv Raman Gaur, former Minister Mr Dhir Pal Singh, District Congress President Mr Jaideep Dhankhar, Medical Superintendent Dr Shakti Gupta, Haryana Ayurvedic Board Chairman Dr Sanjay Atri, officers of district administration and number of local leaders were also present on the occasion.