Jalandhar MP meets Union health minister, seeks AIIMS for Doaba
JALANDHAR: Jalandhar Member of Parliament (MP) Santokh Chaudhary on Wednesday met Union health minister JP Nadda and demanded the setting up of an All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Doaba region.
“People of the area have to go either to Chandigarh or New Delhi for treatment which causes lot of mental and physical harassment to the patients,” the MP said, in a memorandum.
Chaudhary added, “The Congress regime in the state in the 1990s decided to open a super- specialty- institute cum medical college (Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences) in Doaba. Land was arranged and investment of more than `150 crore was invested on building and infrastructure. However, the present SAD-BJP government leased out the premises to a private society on `130 crore.”
He claimed that the state gov- ernment had finalized a site near Ramidi village in Kapurthala district for the AIIMS to be set up in the state,
“Bowing to political compulsions, Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal decided to shift the project to Bathinda even as an adjoining Sangrur has a satellite centre of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS).”