Rajkot: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Rajkot will not only strengthen the medical network in the region, but also create large number of jobs once it is set up.
PM Narendra Modi said that AIIMS will create nearly 5,000 direct jobs and provide indirect employment through related facilities like lodging, food, transport etc.
Modi also took a swipe at previous governments saying that after Independence only six AIIMs were established and six others which were conceptualized by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in 2003 took nine long years to come up.
In the last six years, 10 new AIIMS are being built and work on some of them is in full swing he said.
“We are looking at setting up one AIIMS in each state and 29 other super speciality hospitals. There should be one medical college between three Lok Sabha constituencies,” he said.