About eight acres of the King Institute of Preventive Medicine’s campus may soon house the National Institute of Ageing.
A five-member Central government team, which is in the State to examine sites for the establishment of an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), arrived in Guindy here on Saturday morning to take a look on the campus.
Speaking to the press, Dharitri Panda, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, said the team had noted that there were many trees on the Guindy campus, and asked for a mapping of the trees in order to minimise damage during construction of the institute.
“The institute will be a 200-bed specialist geriatric facility linked to Madras Medical College (MMC). We can increase the number of beds later, if needed. Research, training and producing specialists are among its aims. It will also have 15 postgraduate seats in geriatric medicine,” she said.
The Rs. 150-crore project has been approved in the 12{+t}{+h}Five Year Plan, she said. Among other facilities, the institute will have a Frail Elderly Clinic, an Aids and Appliances Clinic, and an Implants and Cosmetic Clinic.
The institute will be one of only two in the country, with the other at AIIMS in Delhi.
The institute, set
up at Rs. 150 crore, will be a 200-bed specialist geriatric facility linked
to Madras
Medical College
