Orissa remained silent spectator

BHUBANESWAR: Orissa has lost out on a massive central health infrastructure upgradation scheme, thanks to the complacency of the State Government.
While states like Uttar Pradesh ran away with a medical institution like the AIIMS and special assistance for upgradation of five Government medical colleges and Bihar could get an AIIMS and assistance for modernisation of two of its medical colleges, Orissa seemed happy with the sole AIIMS allotted to it. The NDA Government had sanctioned six super speciality medical colleges on the line of AIIMS in six states, including the one in Orissa, under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Surakhya Yojana (PMSSY) in 2003.