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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said helium had asked Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda to authorisation a National Institute for Geriatric Care and Healthy Ageing successful Kerala.
Mr. Vijayan submitted a memorandum to Mr. Nadda connected the further improvement of Kerala’s wellness assemblage during a one-to-one gathering with the Union Minister successful New Delhi connected Friday.
“Kerala’s colonisation is ageing fast. Its fig of elder citizens is abundant and accelerated increasing, fixed accrued beingness expectancy, a robust nationalist wellness system, and a precocious carnal prime of beingness index. Such an instauration successful Kerala, a nationalist person successful nationalist wellness care, could payment different regions successful the country,” helium added.
The Chief Minister requested Mr. Nadda to expedite the fiscal clearances (from the Union Finance Ministry) required to realise Kerala’s long-standing request for an AIIMS astatine Kinalur successful Kozhikode. Mr. Vijayan met Mr. Nadda successful New Delhi and presented a memorandum for further improvement of Kerala’s wellness sector.
Four locations
Mr. Vijayan said the Kerala authorities reserved nary peculiar favour for immoderate portion successful the State for the constitution of an AIIMS. “Initially, we gave a database of 4 projected AIIMS locations to the Centre. The Centre directed the State to suggest a azygous location. Subsequently, the authorities identified Kinalur for the task and earmarked 185 acres for the project,” helium added.
Mr. Vijayan requested that Mr. Nadda nonstop a squad to survey the designated onshore and supply a wide appraisal of the feasibility astatine the earliest. He asked Mr. Nadda to see the task successful the adjacent signifier of the Centre’s Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY).
Suresh Gopi’s statement
When asked astir Union Minister Suresh Gopi’s purported menace to determination the projected AIIMS to Tamil Nadu if the State refused to see his constituency successful Thrissur oregon Alappuzha, arsenic a 2nd choice, Mr. Vijayan stated: “Such remarks bash not merit a response”.
Mr. Vijayan said Mr. Nadda had responded positively to Kerala’s demands. “Mr. Nadda told maine that 2 large wellness assemblage projects for Kerala are nether the Centre’s progressive consideration,” helium said.
