AIIMS Madurai to built soon, says Telangana Governor

The construction of the AIIMS Madurai campus is still not complete. The foundation stone for the project was laid in January 2019. The land was transferred by the state government to the Centre in February 2020. Recently, opposition members also staged a walkout in the Lok Sabha over the issue. Now, Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan said that the construction work will be completed soon.

Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan said in her “capacity as a doctor” that the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Madurai will be built soon.

She said, “In my stature as a doctor and not as a governor, I promise that AIIMS Madurai will be built soon. As a doctor, I believe that the AIIMS hospital should be built to world-class standards and that this will be done,” as reported by The Print.

“When they were in the union government, the DMK did nothing to help the AIIMS. However Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the initiative for the AIIMS project in Madurai,” she added.

“The centre has constructed multi-speciality hospitals in Madurai, Chennai, Coimbatore and Tirunelveli. The Prime Minister is working to bring a medical college in every district in Tamil Nadu,” further added the governor.

AIIMS Madurai Construction: More Details

Two weeks ago, opposition members staged a walkout in the Lok Sabha over the alleged delay in the construction of the AIIMS Madurai campus.

Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya said in the Lok Sabha, “Politics can be done on any issue. The politics which is being done here are misdirecting from the question regarding Madurai AIIMS. The education of Madurai AIIMS has started already, just the infrastructure is not present. Why are you giving the wrong information to people of AIIMS Madurai?,” as reported by Hindustan Times.

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