City to get state-of-the-art hosp on lines of AIIMS: Deputy CM
Prayagraj: Deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak has said though there is no AIIMS in Prayagraj, preparations are underway to build a state-of-the-art hospital in the city with medical facilities equivalent to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
Superspecialist doctors will soon be appointed in Bailey and Colvin hospitals. The municipal corporation has been made its nodal agency.
Addressing a press conference on Friday, he said the state govt is in the process of filling 2,100 vacant posts in the health department through advertisement, and 532 doctors will be deployed in the hospitals soon.
Pathak was in the city to attend the conclusion of a mock parliament organised to mark the completion of 50 years of Emergency.
He remarked that "the country can never forget the atrocities committed by Congress by imposing Emergency in the country. This was the period when even the freedom of the press was abolished. Congress strangled the constitution. Congress is hungry for power, and this party is misleading the public.
Congress and SP are individualistic parties".
Highlighting the achievements of the UP govt, he said since 2017, the state has witnessed remarkable progress in resources and law and order, with Uttar Pradesh now topping the 'One District One Product' initiative.
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