The project, envisaged by Home Minister P Chidambaram on the same lines as that of the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), has seen exchange of many letters with Additional Director General (Medical) B S Pandey finally approaching the Ministry pointing out a number of ambiguities in the over 16,000 crore project called the Central Armed Police Forces Institute of Medical Sciences (CAPFIMS).
ADG Pandey, who supervises the chain of health care services for the over 8-lakh central paramilitary forces personnel, has written a three-page letter to Special Secretary (Internal Security) Ajay Chadha with a copy to Union Home Secretary R K Singh for their intervention.
Pandey has also asked for the removal of the project consultant, also his predecessor to the ADG post-- Dr R S Rathore as he has "no experience of raising such projects" as he suggested that the project should be outsourced to a PSU under the Union Health Ministry.
Chidambaram had announced the Union Cabinet's approval for creation of this much-awaited institute on December 30 last year.
At present, there is no single specialised medical college for the central forces troopers and hence they all have separate tie-ups with different hospitals across the country to obtain medical care for their personnel.
"I am happy to announce a major decision of the Cabinet taken at its meeting on December 22, 2011. The Cabinet gave its in-principle approval for the establishment of a Central Armed Police Forces Institute of Medical Sciences, a 500-bed general hospital, a 300-bed super speciality hospital, a nursing college and a school of paramedics," Chidambaram had declared. (MORE)