In Pictures: Here's How Work On India's Under-Construction AIIMS Projects Is Progressing

.The unprecedented second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic brought renewed focus on India's health care facilities, especially tertiary health care centres like speciality and super-speciality hospitals which are instrumental in treating serious patients.

One of initiatives aimed at enhancing the tertiary health care coverage in India is the formation of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) across India.

Since 2006, 22 AIIMS have been approved by the central government in various phases under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY). This scheme was launched in 2003 to correct the regional imbalances in providing affordable and reliable tertiary and to provide quality medical education.

Twitter users Gurkirat Mand and Chandrashekhar Daghe have pictorially collated the ongoing work on AIIMS Vijaypur in Jammu, AIIMS Kalyani in West Bengal, AIIMS Mangalagiri in Andhra Pradesh, AIIMS Bathinda in Punjab, AIIMS Changsari (Guwahati) in Assam, AIIMS Madurai in Tamil Nadu, AIIMS Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, AIIMS Deoghar in Jharkhand and AIIMS Rae Bareli, AIIMS Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh.

Here are some of the pictures from the under-construction and partially completed AIIMS projects.

AIIMS Nagpur: One of the AIIMS announced under the fourth phase in 2014, the hospital building has been designed by American architectural firm Perkins Eastman. It will be built at an approximate cost of Rs 1,577 crore.