NEIGRIHMS to be commissioned in May 2005

GUWAHATI, Jan 13 — The progress of the implementation of North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) was reviewed in a meeting held under the chairmanship of the Union Minister of Health and FW, Dr C P Thakur at Guwahati yesterday. Addressing the review meeting, Dr Thakur said that NEIGRIHMS will be commissioned in May 2005. While expressing his satisfaction over the works completed so far, he urged upon the concerned authorities of the project to speed up works in order to complete the same within the stipulated time. The NEIGRIHMS, established in 1987 and later brought under the Prime Minister’s package of the North East declared in 1997, has now been designed as a fully Residential Post Graduate Medical Institute in the lineage of AIIMS, New Delhi and PGIMER, Chandigarh NEIGRIHMS has been the first and the only postgraduate medical institute in the NE Region and third in the country established by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The cost estimate of the institute has been projected at Rs 422.60 crore.