PM Modi lays the inspiration stone of Assam Advanced Healthcare Innovation Institute

Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the inspiration stone of Assam Advanced Healthcare Innovation Institute (AAHII) on the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati on Friday, the federal authorities educated in a press launch.

The Prime Minister moreover urged people to return collectively for attaining the purpose of ‘Swasth Bharat Samridh Bharat’. Speaking all through the event, PM Modi talked about, “Today the Northeast region of our country received a boost in the healthcare infrastructure. I am honoured to dedicate the first AIIMS of the Northeast and three medical colleges to the people of Assam. I am happy to note the Assam Advanced Healthcare Innovation Institute being set up in collaboration between the Assam government and IIT Guwahati will foster innovative healthcare solutions.”

“Let us come together and make sure we work in harmony and follow ‘Sabka Sath, Sabka Prayas, Sabka Vikas, to achieve our target of Swasth Bharat, Samridh Bharat,” he added.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma moreover addressed the event and thanked the Prime Minister for laying the inspiration stone of AAHII, together with that this will arrange the synergy between know-how and healthcare.

“On the auspicious occasion of Bohag Bihu we welcome PM Narendra Modi Ji to Assam. IIT Guwahati and Assam Government had envisioned a medical college where Engineers and Doctors will work together towards Medical Innovation. Prime Minister has helped us realize Assam’s dream,” he talked about.

Sarma added, “Today he will lay the foundation of AAHII on the IIT Guwahati campus. In this healthcare and innovation Institute, doctors will work towards Medical Innovation and engineers will work to make Healthcare ‘Atma Nirbhar’. We believe in the next three years this medical college will establish the synergy between technology and healthcare”.

The Assam Advanced Health Innovation Institute (AAHII) is a singular partnership between the Government of Assam and IIT Guwahati to rearrange a healthcare Research Institution to leverage superior utilized sciences to transform medical science.

The Institute may provide Advanced Medical Degrees in Diplomate of National Board (DNB), Doctor of Medicine (MD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Master of Surgery (MS), and MD-PhD functions.

Speaking all through the event Professor Parameswar Ok Iyer, Officiating Director, IIT Guwahati, talked about that AAHII will create a single umbrella beneath which physicians, scientists, engineers, medical medical doctors, design personnel, and regulators will work collectively to invent and innovate utilized sciences and cater for the divergent needs of the parents of Assam.

“AAHII will comprise of three major verticals, (i) an R&D Block, (ii) a 500-bed super-speciality hospital and (iii) a Post-graduate medical college. The R&D Block will initially start with six centres of excellence for cutting-edge research in Stem cell, digital health, Therapeutics (drug design, delivery, informatics), Precision medicine, Robotics and Affordable diagnostics. The super-speciality hospital will fill the current void in Assam and North-east of India by providing advanced Robotic surgery, comprehensive Transplant surgery, Gene therapy, Precision Medicine, Complex Trauma care, cutting-edge Neonatology, Neurosurgery, and complex Cardiac procedures among others,” he talked about.

As per the discharge, AAHII will be carried out by way of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), notably, Assam Government IITG Healthcare Foundation – AGIHF, which is a 3 means partnership between the Government of Assam and IIT Guwahati. In the near future, this SPV will invite participation from corporates, enterprise properties, evaluation institutions and philanthropic organizations to collaborate on healthcare evaluation and enhancements.

AAHII could be a nationally and internationally ‘Connected’ hospital cum evaluation hub, thus enabling capacity and data change to the peripheral hospitals empowering them for larger affected particular person administration by way of enhanced talents.

It may possess a Simulation lab built-in with Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR-VR) facilities that may uplift the skills of the medical medical doctors, nurses and completely different nicely being workers. Through built-in and seamless functioning between these components, AAHII will current the inspiration for evidence-based healthcare provide to the State along with to the nation.

Over the years, IIT Guwahati is working tirelessly in collaboration with the central and state authorities in direction of revolutionizing the nicely being sector throughout the North-East space by rising a digital freeway for the stakeholders of the healthcare ecosystem whereas guaranteeing accessibility, affordability, inclusivity, and interoperability. The foundation stone to setup AAHII by the Prime Minister is one different primary step to fulfil this imaginative and prescient,” the discharge extra acknowledged.

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