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Health Minister Veena George connected Saturday said the State should not beryllium denied an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) implicit arguments astir its location.
She said lone a governmental determination by the Centre was pending connected the much-awaited project. Both the contiguous Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda and his predecessor Mansukh Mandaviya had responded positively to Kerala’s request for the premier aesculapian institute, she told reporters here.
Mr. Mandaviya had adjacent said the State “definitely deserved” an AIIMS, she recalled.
Asked astir the ongoing discussions implicit the location, Ms. George said the task should not beryllium withheld connected relationship of specified debates.
“Only a governmental determination of the Centre is pending now. That determination should beryllium taken astatine the earliest,” she said.
The Minister added that mounting up an AIIMS was a long-standing request of the radical of Kerala.
Her remarks came days aft Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Tourism Suresh Gopi called for an AIIMS successful Alappuzha district.
