New Delhi: To provide better health facilities to the thousands of patients who flock to AIIMS every day, the country’s premier health institution plans to set up a new 400-bed mother-and-child centre with upgraded facilities, along with a 200-bed surgical centre and a 200-bed geriatric welfare centre as part of its expansion plans.
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) plans to set up the units using the Rs13.65bn that was allocated to it in the union budget for 2014-15, its director, M C Misra, said.
The institute, which was established on September 25, 1956 as a referral and research hospital, provides medical services to more than three million patients every year.
“Observing the over-congested situation in the Out Patient Department (OPD), a new OPD equipped with better features will be set up. Also, a new nine-storey building is under construction in the Masjid Moth area (behind AIIMS), where several new departments will be set up,” Misra added.
Misra said that the 200-bed surgical centre, a 400-bed mother and child care centre with updated facilities and a geriatric care centre will be set up within the next two years.
“Considering the patient rush in the emergency and the problems faced while managing patients, a proposal to set up a new emergency has been made to the health ministry, which is likely to give its nod soon,” Misra, who was earlier head of the institute’s trauma centre, said.
He said that four new hostels, two each for boys and girls engaged in various courses at AIIMS, are also under construction and would be ready soon.
“We are paying importance to academics, so we have decided to start some super-specialisation courses in areas including MCH, DM in paediatric pulmonary medicine and paediatric nephrology,” he said.
“Though the students have been doing well in research, we will further allocate money for uplifting the research infrastructure at the hospital,” added Misra, who is considered one of India’s leading surgeons.
Mishra said that the Trauma Center was also being expanded and the work would be completed by 2015.
He said that the money will also be used to modernise teaching methods.
“Teaching techniques also needs to be modernised as one of AIIMS’ priority areas was to provide the best medical teaching to its students,” he said.
IANS
