The Cabinet today gave its approval for establishment of a new All India Institute of Medical Sciences, AIIMS at Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY). The cost of the project is 1 thousand 3 hundred 51 crore rupees. The new AIIMS will be completed in a period of 48 months.<br/><br/>The Institution will consist of a hospital with a capacity of 750 beds and trauma center facilities. It will also have a Medical college with an intake of 100 MBBS students per year and Nursing college with an intake of 60 B.Sc. (Nursing) students per year. <br/><br/>The hospital will have 20 Speciality and Super-Speciality Departments including 15 Operation Theatres. It will also have an AYUSH department with 30 beds for providing treatment facilities in traditional system of medicine. <br/>'<br/>Under this scheme, AIIMS have been established in Bhubaneshwar, Bhopal, Raipur, Jodhpur, Rishikesh and Patna while work of AIIMS Rae Bareli is in progress. <br/><br/>Also, three AIIMS in Nagpur (Maharashtra), Kalyani (West Bengal) and Mangalagiri in Guntur (Andhra Pradesh) have been sanctioned in 2015, two AIIMS have been sanctioned at Bathinda and Gorakhpur in 2016 and an AIIMS in Kamrup (Assam).