Overview

• Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma handed appointment letters to 400 medical and health officers, raising total state recruitments to over 120,000.
• The government aims to expand medical colleges from 13 to 29 by 2030 and boost annual doctor output to 4,000 graduates.
• Every constituency is set to receive a 100-bed hospital to widen access and reduce maternal and infant mortality rates.
• Sarma outlined a shift toward telemedicine, AI-driven diagnostics, robotic surgeries and digital prescriptions to enable remote patient care.
• Assam’s maternal mortality rate has fallen from 480 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2006 to 167 in 2019–21 following sustained infrastructure and training reforms.