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Q1Consider the following statements regarding the 2015 Cabinet approval for new AIIMS: 1. The Cabinet approved new AIIMS only at Nagpur, and not at Mangalagiri or Kalyani. 2. The proposed institution under that approval was to have a hospital with a capacity of 960 beds. 3. The reported cost of the new AIIMS at Nagpur was Rs. 1754 crore. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Only statement 2 is correct. The 2015 PIB release approved three AIIMS at Nagpur, Mangalagiri and Kalyani, not Nagpur alone. It specified a 960-bed hospital. Statement 3 is wrong because the Nagpur cost was Rs. 1577 crore; Rs. 1754 crore was for Kalyani.
Q2Consider the following statements: 1. President Droupadi Murmu addressed the AIIMS Nagpur convocation held on 15 April 2026. 2. At the AIIMS Nagpur convocation, degrees and gold medals were conferred on 210 students from undergraduate, postgraduate and super-specialty programmes. 3. AIIMS Nagpur was established under the National Rural Health Mission, not under PMSSY. 4. AIIMS Nagpur is among the AIIMS where MBBS classes/OPD/IPD are operational in the PMSSY status table. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statements 1, 2 and 4 are correct. Statement 3 is false because the corpus fact states AIIMS Nagpur was established under PMSSY, and the PMSSY status page also lists Nagpur in the AIIMS network.
Q3Consider the following statements regarding primary and secondary care in the National Health Policy, 2017: 1. Facilities providing the larger package of comprehensive primary health care were to be called Health and Wellness Centers. 2. The policy recommended that health centres be established only on population norms, not on geographical norms. 3. For district-level secondary care, the policy aimed at at least two beds per thousand population, accessible within the golden-hour rule. 4. The policy advocated allocating up to two-thirds or more of resources to primary care before secondary and tertiary care. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statements 1, 3 and 4 are correct. Statement 2 is false because the policy recommended geographical norms apart from population norms, not population norms alone.
Q4Consider the following statements regarding the AIIMS network under PMSSY, as reported by PIB in December 2023: 1. Setting up of 22 new AIIMS across the country had been sanctioned under PMSSY. 2. Six sanctioned AIIMS became operational in 2012. 3. AIIMS Jodhpur was among the six AIIMS that became operational in 2012. 4. AIIMS Jaipur was among the six AIIMS that became operational in 2012. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statements 1, 2 and 3 are correct. PIB reported 22 sanctioned new AIIMS and named Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Patna, Raipur and Rishikesh as the six that became operational in 2012. Statement 4 is incorrect because Jaipur is not in that list; the Rajasthan entry is Jodhpur.
Q5Consider the following statements regarding key components of AB-HWCs: 1. AB-HWCs expand services beyond maternal and child health to include non-communicable diseases. 2. AB-HWCs are designed only for tertiary care and do not use referral linkages. 3. A Community Health Officer is posted at SHC-HWC. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statements 1 and 3 are correct. AB-HWCs expand services beyond maternal and child health, and a Community Health Officer is posted at SHC-HWC. Statement 2 is incorrect because the model includes tele-health and a two-way referral system linking to secondary and tertiary care.
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6Consider the following statements regarding AIIMS-like institutions under PMSSY as reported by PIB in 2019: 1. Twenty-two AIIMS had been announced or sanctioned under PMSSY. 2. Jodhpur was among the six functional AIIMS listed in that release. 3. AIIMS Nagpur was among the six functional AIIMS listed in that release. Which of the statements given above are correct?
7Consider the following statements regarding AIIMS Nagpur and technology in healthcare: 1. President Droupadi Murmu addressed the convocation ceremony of AIIMS Nagpur on 15 April 2026. 2. The President said technology should replace compassion and a patient-centric approach in medicine. 3. According to the corpus fact bank, degrees and gold medals were conferred on 210 students at the AIIMS Nagpur convocation. Which of the statements given above are correct?
8Consider the following statements regarding the National Health Policy, 2017: 1. It envisages raising public health expenditure to 5% of GDP by 2025. 2. It envisages raising public health expenditure progressively to 2.5% of GDP by 2025. 3. It recommended replacing primary health care with only tertiary hospital care. Which of the statements given above are correct?
9Consider the following statements regarding Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM): 1. The Prime Minister was scheduled to launch ABDM on 27 September 2021. 2. The pilot project of ABDM had been announced from the ramparts of the Red Fort on 15 August 2020. 3. At the time of the 26 September 2021 PIB release, ABDM was being implemented in pilot phase in six States. 4. ABDM enables access and exchange of longitudinal health records of citizens with their consent. Which of the statements given above are correct?
10Consider the following statements: 1. PMSSY has a component for upgradation of existing Government Medical Colleges/Institutions. 2. Upgradation of Government Medical Colleges under PMSSY involves creation of 8-10 super-specialty departments. 3. The average cost of a Government Medical College upgradation project under PMSSY is stated as Rs. 200 crore, shared 60:40 between the Centre and States. 4. Human resources and running cost for upgraded Government Medical Colleges are to be provided by the Union Government. Which of the statements given above are correct?
11Consider the following statements regarding Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY: 1. It provides health cover of Rs. 5 lakh per family per year. 2. It is restricted to primary outpatient care only. 3. It covers secondary and tertiary care hospitalization. Which of the statements given above are correct?
12Consider the following statements regarding the 2021 PIB summary of PMSSY implementation: 1. PMSSY envisages tertiary healthcare capacity in medical education, research and clinical care in underserved areas. 2. As per the PIB summary, 22 new AIIMS and 75 upgradation projects had been approved under PMSSY. 3. The six Phase-I AIIMS were reported as fully functional, with emergency, trauma, blood bank, ICU, diagnostic and pathology services functioning. 4. The PIB summary stated that PMSSY excludes research and is limited to clinical care alone. Which of the statements given above are correct?
13Consider the following statements: 1. AIIMS Jodhpur is one of the six new AIIMS established by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare under PMSSY. 2. AIIMS Jodhpur was set up with the aim of correcting regional imbalances in quality tertiary healthcare and attaining self-sufficiency in graduate and postgraduate medical education. 3. PMSSY planned to set up six new AIIMS-like institutions in underserved areas of the country. 4. AIIMS Jodhpur was established by the Rajasthan Government outside the PMSSY framework. Which of the statements given above are correct?
14Consider the following statements regarding AIIMS Nagpur convocation held on 15 April 2026: 1. President Droupadi Murmu addressed the convocation. 2. Degrees and gold medals were conferred on 210 students. 3. AIIMS Nagpur was established under PMSSY. 4. AIIMS Nagpur was established under the National Health Mission rather than PMSSY. Which of the statements given above are correct?
15Consider the following statements regarding the 2016 proposal for three new AIIMS: 1. One approved AIIMS was at Mangalagiri near Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. 2. The Nagpur AIIMS was approved at the cost of Rs 1754 crore. 3. One approved AIIMS was at Kalyani in West Bengal. Which of the statements given above are correct?