While the construction of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Madurai is yet to make progress even after seven years, Kalaignar Centenary Super Speciality Hospital was completed within 15 months, said Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Thursday.
Inaugurating the 1,000-bedded Kalaignar Centenary Super Speciality Hospital at Guindy in Chennai, he said the people of Tamil Nadu knew the difference between those, who genuinely designed schemes for the benefit of people and those, who announced schemes only to deceive.
Taking a dig at the proposal for constructing AIIMS in Madurai by (Union government) for which even the second brick is not up as yet, he said, “This [Kalaignar] hospital will save the lives of people for several years. If left to us, we could construct a hospital like this one every year. Tamil Nadu is a State with superior medical infrastructure.”