The stage is set for the formal inauguration
of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Wednesday amid plans to
make it a centre of excellence in medical education, health
care and
research.
The premier institute is slated to be inaugurated by Union Health and
Family Welfare minister Ghulam Nabi Azad while Odisha Chief Minister Naveen
Patnaik would be the chief guest, Director of AIIMS-Bhubaneswar, Dr A K
Mahapatra said. Since the start of
academic session for the first batch of MBBS students in September 2012 with
intake of 50 students, AIIMS-Bhubaneswar now has 135 beds including 10 ICU
beds, 30 for casualty and six recovery beds, he said adding by the end of this
year the hospital is expected to have about 600 beds.
"By June, 2015, we are likely to achieve
the target of having a 978-bedded hospital," Mahapatra said. Stating that
the AIIMS, Bhubaneswar was among the six
new AIIMS planned under the centre's Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Surakshya Yojana
(PMSSY), he said these were meant to correct the regional imbalances in
quality tertiary healthcare. While the second batch of 100 MBBS students joined
the institute in August last, 60 students were enrolled into the BSc (Nursing)
course in September last and about 50 resident doctors are taken on strength
till date to facilitate patient care as well as teaching and training,
Mahapatra said. At present, there are 69 faculty members from 26 different
disciplines at AIIMS-Bhubaneswar. The hospital has three functional operation
theatres till date and more than 50 operations have been carried out so far, he
said.
The All India Institutes of Medical Sciences
(AIIMSes) are a group of autonomous public medical colleges of higher
education. AIIMS New Delhi, the fore-runner parent excellence institution, was
established in 1956.