madurai prime minister narendra modi on sunday said the nda government was committed to strengthening initiatives for ensuring universal healthcare and as part of it had taken the aiims brand to various parts of the countryaddressing the gathering after laying the foundation stone for aiims at thoppur near here he outlined the initiatives taken by the centre on the health care frontthe aiims reflects the vision of ek bharat shreshta bharat he saidaiims in new delhi had cultivated a brand name for itself in healthcare and with the aiims in madurai to come up we can say that this brand of health care has been taken to all corners of country from kanyakumari to kashmir to madurai from guwahati to gujarat he saidexpressing confidence that the proposed aiims will benefit the entire tamil nadu he said the nda government is giving great priority to health sector so that every one is healthy and healthcare is affordableunder the pradhan mantri swasthya suraksha yojana the government has supported upgradation of goverment medical colleges across the country he saidnoting that he was happy to inauguate new super speciality blocks in tamil nadu government medical colleges he referred to the central government health initiative mission indradhanushthe speed and scale of danush arrow was working and seting a new paradigm in preventive health caretoday i am happpy to dedicate 12 passport office seva kendras in tamil nadu and this initiative is one more example of improving the ease of living for our citizens the prime minister addedthe proposed 750bed modern aiims here on its completion will also offer 100 mbbs seatschief minister k palaniswami who participated in the function thanked the prime minister for providing the aiims facility to tamil nadu and urged upon the centre to set up a medical college at the backward ramanathapuram districtearlier the mdmk cadres led by its chief vaiko staged a black flag demonstration against modi shortly before he arrived here accusing him of betraying the interests of tamil nadupolice said the protesters were detainedreleasing black baloons the protesting party cadres raised slogans against modi alleging that he betrayed the interests of tamil nadu on cauvery and other issuesin a counter move bjp youth wing supporters put up posters sarcastically welcoming vaikothe mdmk cadres however said the protest was not against the aiimstamil nadu unit bjp president tamilisai soundararajan and union minister of state for finance and shipping pon radhakrishnan strongly condemned mdmk for the protest