evidence: Centre’s ambitious project to set up a chain of 13 AIIMS like super specialty hospitals in the country finally takes off, reports Anil Anand. Centre’s ambitious project to set up a chain of 13 AIIMS-like super specialty hospitals in the country finally took off on Monday with the Health Ministry clearing three such projects for Kolkata, Jammu and Lucknow. [...] The Jammu medical college project involves setting up of six new super-specialty departments of cardiology, cardiothorasic surgery, nephrology, nephrology surgery, neurology and neurology surgery. Super-specialty facilities will also be created in the existing nine departments. In addition, an ultra-modern 30-bed pediatrics ward is also proposed to be set, state health secretary K B Jandial said.