Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana(PMSSY)

The Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) has been approved in March 2006 with the objective of correcting the imbalances in availability of affordable/reliable tertiary level healthcare in the country in general and to augment facilities for quality medical education in the under-served States. The PMSSY envisages:-

(i) Setting up up 6 AIIMS like institutions one each in the States of Bihar(Patna), Madhya Pradesh(Bhopal), Orissa(Bhubaneshwar), Rajasthan(Jodhpur),Chhattisgarh(Raipur) and Uttaranchal (Rishikesh) at an estimated cost of Rs.332 Crores per institution. Each institution will have a 850 bedded hospital intended to provide healthcare facilities in 39 speciality/super-speciality disciplines. Medical College will have 100 UG intake besides facilities for imparting PG/doctoral courses in various disciplines.

(ii) Upgradation of the following 13 existing medical institutions with an outlay of Rs.120 Cores per institution, of which Rs.100 Crores would be borne by the Central Govt. and the remaining Rs.20 by the respective State Govt:-

1. Govt. Medical College, Jammu (J&K)

2. Govt. Medical College, Srinagar (J&K)

3. Kolkatta Medical College, Kolkatta (W.B.)

4. Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical

Sciences, Lucknow (U.P)

5. Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, Varanasi (UP),

6. Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad(A.P)

7. Sri Venkateshwara Institute of Medical Sciences,

Tirupati (A.P) (50% cost of upgradation will be borne

by the TTD Trust)

8. Govt. Medical College, Salem (T.N.)

9. Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS), Ranchi

(Jharkhand)

10. B.J. Medical College, Ahmedabad (Gujarat)

11. Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore(Karnataka)

12. Grant Medical College & Sir J.J. Group Of

Hospitals, Mumbai, (Maharashta)

13. Medical College, Thrivananthapuram, (Kerala)

The Scheme would be implemented by 2009-10.