AIIMS in Gorakhpur will be inaugurated next month: Yogi Adityanath

GORAKHPUR: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said that in December an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will be inaugurated in Gorakhpur and a fertiliser factory which has been lying closed since 1990 will be restarted.

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Addressing a gathering after the inauguration or foundation laying of 86 development schemes worth more than Rs 316 crore here, Adityanath said, "The inauguration of the AIIMS in Gorakhpur will be done next month. Since 2004 there has been a demand for setting up an AIIMS in Gorakhpur."

आज गोरखपुर विकास के नए प्रतिमान स्थापित कर रहा है।

गोरखपुर में 1990 में बंद हुआ फर्टिलाइजर कारखाना अगले महीने दिसंबर में प्रारंभ हो जाएगा।

गोरखपुर में AIIMS की मांग 2004 से चल रही थी, इसका भी उद्घाटन अगले महीने होने जा रहा है: #UPCM श्री @myogiadityanath जी pic.twitter.com/D0xq4cXTCG

— CM Office, GoUP (@CMOfficeUP) November 28, 2021

He also said that the fertiliser factory which has been lying closed since 1990 will be restarted next month.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate both the facilities to the public. He said that under Prime Minister Modi, there has been a tremendous transformation in the healthcare sector in the state. There were only 12 medical colleges in the state since Independence, but today the government is constructing 33 new medical colleges. Uttar Pradesh goes to assembly polls early next year.

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"In Gorakhpur and Basti Commissionerate, which had only 01 Medical College earlier, today BRD Medical College has progressed strongly with 05 Medical Colleges, 01 AIIMS and Super Specialty Block in it. The best health facilities are being provided to the people here," Yogi Adityanath further said.