Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has expressed huge displeasure over the functioning of AIIMS. Gadkari said that despite his continuous efforts, sickle cell and thalassemia patients have to go to Mumbai for treatment. Till now no concrete step has been taken in this direction. Gadkari reprimanded the AIIMS director in strong words from the public platform and warned him.
The permanent campus of IIIT located at Butibori, Nagpur was inaugurated on Saturday by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
This is the first time that Gadkari has criticized AIIMS from a public platform. The Union Minister further said, “We want that AIIMS should be properly utilized so that Nagpur and Vidarbha develope and the poor should also benefit.