NEIGRIHMS has been projected on a modular system on four pillars of Health Programmes.

• Medical Education & Human Resource Development:
  Center of Excellence for Medical Education to generate Health Manpower in Specialty, Super-specialty Medical Departments and Paramedics, Designed as a Postgraduate Medical Institute with 35 Postgraduate Departments on the line of PGIMER, Chandigarh and AIIMS, New Delhi, PG College of Nursing and Pharmacy shall be added to the Institute.
  

• User Friendly Patient Care System with State-of-Art Technology:
  As an Apex Referral Hospital with 500 beds, it will provide specialized Health Care to the people of North Eastern Region.
  

• Central Research Organization with Primary and Advanced Research Facilities:
  It shall look after the Regional needs and collaborate with other National and International agencies.
  

• Health Consultancy Service in Regional and Central Health Schemes:
  The Institute being the first of its kind of Post Graduate Health Institute in the Regional shall take up the responsibility of an Apex Co-ordination Center to guide the Health Policies of North Eastern Council and also to co-ordinate with the Central Government Plans and Programmes of health care. The Institute shall be co-coordinating with International Health Organizations like WHO, UNICEF, World Bank, etc.