BHUBANESWAR: All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar, will hold its first convocation on Saturday. Vice president
Venkaiah Naidu will attend as chief guest of the function.
The Union ministry of health and family welfare had established six new AIIMS at Bhubaneswar, Patna, Raipur, Bhopal, Jaipur and Rishikesh apart from the one at New Delhi. “Out of all the six new AIIMS, we are the first one to organise convocation,” said Gitanjali Batmanabane, director of AIIMS Bhubaneswar.
A total of 106 students will get degrees and 23 of them will get gold medals. As many as 50 MBBS students of the 2012 batch and 56 B Sc (nursing) student of 2013 batch, who were successfully completed their academic classes, will be awarded degrees, said the director.
Anagha Menon will receive the Institute Gold Medal for the best outgoing 2012 MBBS batch, while Shivani will get the best outgoing students of 2013 B Sc (Nursing) batch.
A detail review of security has been completed before the visit of the vice president. Around 25 platoons of police force will be deployed during his visit to the institute. He will reach the capital city at 8.20 am on Saturday. He will visit Raj Bhawan and then AIIMS Bhubaneswar. Governor Ganeshi Lal, chief minister
Naveen Patnaik, Union health minister J P Nadda and Union petroleum minister
Dharmendra Pradhan will also attend the function, official sources said.
On the occasion of the convocation, foundation stone for establishment of a Dharmasala (shelter for attendants of patients) with 560 beds will be laid in the campus. It will be constructed with an estimated cost of Rs 24 crore funded by Nalco. The institute will also set up a dedicated burn treatment unit with an estimated cost of Rs 14 crore given by NTPC, a state-owned PSU, to help the critically burn patients.
Nadda will lay foundation stone of AIIMS Bhubaneswar's satellite centre at Balasore after the convocation is over. The satellite centre will have a 300 bed hospital at Bamapada on the side of the NH 16. The Centre has sanctioned around Rs 35 crore to start the work of the hospital. Boundary wall work has been completed. The institute has already started a temporary outpatient department (OPD) of the centre from the campus of the Integrate Test Range (ITR), Balasore, of DRDO since July last year. Three doctors from the AIIMS Bhubaneswar visit the OPD every Saturday.
AIIMS Bhubaneswar is spread over 91 acres at Sijua in the city. The foundation stone of the institute was laid by then Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee on July 15, 2003. It is presently functioning with 522 beds, 36 ICU beds and seven operation theaters. It gets around 3000 OPD patients daily, including 80 per cent from Odisha, every day.
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