PM Modi also virtually inaugurated three medical colleges at Nalbari, Nagaon and Kokrajhar.
500 bedded tertiary care teaching hospital to be started by admitting 100 MBBS students annually in 24 undergraduate departments in three medical colleges.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Dedicated to the nation the first AIIMS of North East built at a cost of Rs 1,123 crore on Friday.
The super-specialty hospital will provide healthcare services not only to the people of Assam but also to other northeastern states.
He also virtually inaugurated three medical colleges at Nalbari, Nagaon and Kokrajhar.
A 500 bedded tertiary care teaching hospital with 24 undergraduate departments in three medical colleges will start with an intake of 100 annual MBBS students, taking the total number of MBBS students in Assam to 1500.
He also laid the foundation stone of the Rs 546-crore Assam Advanced Healthcare Innovation Institute (AAHII), a joint initiative of the state government and IIT Guwahati. AAHII aims to promote inventions and innovations in medicine and healthcare, promote multidisciplinary research and development in frontier areas of medicine by linking health care with engineering.
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