Bhubaneswar, July 15: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today launched the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Surakshya Yojana by laying the foundation of the regional All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Sijua, about 14 km from here. "We want to make health care facilities available to all and a series of developmental programmes are being taken up all over the country," Vajpayee said while addressing a meeting to mark the occasion. The Prime Minister also simultaneously dedicated to the nation the Institute of Life Sciences here which the Centre has taken over from the administration of the state government. He said such regional AIIMS would be set up in six states, including Orissa.

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