Sonia inaugurates elite health institute in Shillong

Chief of India's ruling congress party Sonia Gandhi, on Friday in Shillong inaugurated the first postgraduate medical institute in northeast India and stressed on the need for an urban health programme like the government's flagship rural health scheme. The North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute for Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS), a state-of-the-art institute, has been designed in line with the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi and the Postgraduate Institutes of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh and Lucknow.