Shocked to know from JICA that Madurai AIIMS construction can begin only at 2024-end, says Health Minister

Subramanian said on Saturday that it was shocking to learn from the Japan International Cooperation Agency that the construction of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Madurai, will begin by the end of 2024 and will be completed in 2028. Mr. Subramanian, while reacting to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya’s remarks on AIIMS, Madurai, in Parliament, said the excuse that there were delays on the part of the former AIADMK government in handing over the land was not acceptable. Referring to the Union Health Minister’s statement that 50 students had already been admitted to AIIMS, Madurai, indicating that the institution had started functioning, he said that establishing a medical college hospital was more than medical education and was also about healthcare service. After Assam, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jaipur and Telangana, the Union government had said it was establishing AIIMS in Tamil Nadu. The Minister said it was the Union government that should submit documents and put forward an official request for expediting the project.