AIIMS Jodhpur 4th Convocation: Mansukh Mandaviya awards meritorious students with gold medals

While delivering the keynote address at the 4th convocation in AIIMS Jodhpur, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated 24 health infrastructure facilities across AIIMS Bilaspur, Rishikesh, Gorakhpur, Nagpur, Bhubaneshwar, Deoghar and lays the foundation stone for 68 health services for AIIMS Jodhpur.

Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Dr Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated 24 health infrastructure facilities across AIIMS Bilaspur, Rishikesh, Gorakhpur, Nagpur, Bhubaneshwar, Deoghar and laid the foundation stone for 68 health services for AIIMS Jodhpur. He also delivered the keynote address at the 4th convocation of AIIMS Jodhpur.

He was joined by Bhajan Lal Sharma, Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Union Minister of Jal Shakti, Gajendra Singh Khimsar, Health Minister, Rajasthan, and Rajendra Gehlot MP, Rajya Sabha.

Dr. Mandaviya awarded meritorious students with gold medals, appreciating their achievements. The event was marked by the distribution of degrees to students who completed their studies in medical, nursing undergraduate, postgraduate and super speciality courses.

Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya and Bhajan Lal Sharma jointly inaugurated and lay the foundation stone for 5 Sub-Health Centres under National Health Mission, 63 projects of National Health Mission civil wing under 15th Finance Commission which include 7 Ayushman Arogya Mandirs, 2 hospitals containing residential housing, 3 hospitals including newly built MNC units, 2 hospitals containing newly built delivery rooms, 4 Jan Aushadhi Centres, 3 newly built BPHU rooms, 42 sub-health centres. These projects are funded under Prime Minister Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission. Under Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana, on a centre-state sharing basis, S.M.S Medical College, Jaipur will be upgraded and dedicated to the nation. It will host 5 divisions namely cardiology, neurology, nephrology, neuro-surgery and medical gerontology. 

Reiterating the Prime Minister’s vision of Ayushman Bharat where health facilities become affordable, accessible and available to every citizen and everyone gets healthcare facilities with the same quality standards, Dr. Mandaviya commended the expansion and improvement of medical education stating “Our hospitals are temples of medicine and as a doctor it is your responsibility to serve them.”

Elaborating further, Dr. Mandaviya cited that momentous growth in health facilities such as the addition of 16 new AIIMS institutes that provide free treatment to the poor as well as the establishment of over 1,60,00 Ayushman Aarogya Mandir that adopt a preventative and holistic approach entailing preventative screening, lifestyle education and wellness components. Expanding the umbrella of health infrastructure, India leverages digital media to ensure that health services reach the last mile providing connectivity, and consultancy to doctors through mediums such as eSanjeevni and Tele-MANAS saving immense time and money for patients.

“If critical care service is available on time in all these diseases, many lives can be saved in these emergency situations," said Dr Mansukh Mandaviya.

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