Nagpur: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Nagpur recently celebrated its second anniversary.
In the last two years, AIIMS has achieved many milestones. It has started its academic services, outpatient department (OPD), day-care services and is set to start its inpatient department by the end of 2020.
Having AIIMS in the city is like a dream come true for many Nagpurians. Citizens are quite eager to know about the functioning of AIIMS, but not many have visited the swanky campus of this institute in MIHAN SEZ.
At present, one can avail the OPD services at AIIMS from 9am to 4.30pm (Mon-Fri) and 9am to 1.30pm on Saturday. The AIIMS building has itself become a landmark in MIHAN as it is one of the very few fully-functioning institutes in this region.
Diagonally-opposite the Delhi Public School MIHAN building, AIIMS is nearly 12km away from Chhatrapati Chowk and 16km from Sitabuldi.
NMC has already started hourly trips of Aapli Bus from Sitabuldi to AIIMS. One can reach the institute by metro as well. The Khapri metro station is the nearest. A shuttle bus service is likely to start soon.
The first phase of the AIIMS project is nearing completion. The OPD and AYUSH Complex, Dharamshala (where admitted patients’ relatives will stay), library, lecture halls, laboratories, multi-storied residential quarters and hostels for faculty and students, guesthouse and in-house sports facility — are up and running.
AIIMS Nagpur Director, Maj Gen (Dr) VA Dutta (SM), most of the faculty and all the 150 students live here in their residential facilities.
The construction of the 300-bed in-patient department (IPD), to be equipped with 24 modular OTs, ICUs and imaging facilities such as MRI and CT scan, is in full swing and is likely to be ready by the end of 2020.
With 150 students, proficient faculty (93) picked through the national selection process, AIIMS is all set to serve patients in Nagpur.
AIIMS Nagpur has also conducted numerous out-reach programmes, drives and camps.
“We have adopted three schools and one urban PHC (UPHC) in Nandanwan. From the time we started providing services at this OPD, the patient count has increased to 2451 from the 500-odd in the first year of its adoption. We are also in the process of adopting a rural PHC in Bela,” said the director of AIIMS.
“Speciality clinics in some departments and stress clinics have also been started to cater to the special needs of the vulnerable population of Vidarbha,” she added.
MILESTONES
July 2014: In the 2014-15 budget speech, the government sanctioned Rs500 crore for setting up four new AIIMS
October 2015: AIIMS at Nagpur was approved by the cabinet at a cost of Rs1,577 crore
September 2017: Construction work on the permanent campus started in MIHAN area
July 2018: AIIMS Nagpur commenced the academic session 2018-19 from a temporary campus at GMCH with an intake of 50 MBBS students
June 2019: Shifting started from GMCH to the permanent campus
July 2019: A BMMS batch comprising 100 students started at the newly-established campus at MIHAN
Mid-2020: PG courses in pre-clinical and para-clinical subjects to begin
2021: MD/MS courses to start
July 2021: Super-speciality services such as gastroenterology, cardiology, neurology, neuro-surgery, oncology etc to start
WHAT AIIMS HAS FOR YOU
A multi-storied OPD spread over 32,520 sqm
OPD services for general medicine, general surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, ophthalmology, ENT, orthopaedics, dermatology, psychiatry and dentistry have started
Average footfall of 400-500 patients per day
The OPD complex also has pharmacy where medicines are dispensed at subsidized rates
Day care services and basic minor OT procedures began in January
SUB-SPECIALITY CLINICS
Department of obstetrics and gynaecology
High risk pregnancy on Tuesday (2pm onwards)
Reproductive health services on Wednesday (2pm onwards)
Gynaecological oncology on Thursday (2pm onwards)
Department of paediatrics
Pulmonology and asthma clinic (Every Thursday, 2pm onwards)
Paediatric neurology (Every Wednesday, 2pm onwards)
Developmental paediatrics (Every Friday, 11am onwards)
Paediatric haematology (2nd Tuesday of the month, 2pm onwards)
In the last two years, AIIMS has achieved many milestones. It has started its academic services, outpatient department (OPD), day-care services and is set to start its inpatient department by the end of 2020.
Having AIIMS in the city is like a dream come true for many Nagpurians. Citizens are quite eager to know about the functioning of AIIMS, but not many have visited the swanky campus of this institute in MIHAN SEZ.
At present, one can avail the OPD services at AIIMS from 9am to 4.30pm (Mon-Fri) and 9am to 1.30pm on Saturday. The AIIMS building has itself become a landmark in MIHAN as it is one of the very few fully-functioning institutes in this region.
Diagonally-opposite the Delhi Public School MIHAN building, AIIMS is nearly 12km away from Chhatrapati Chowk and 16km from Sitabuldi.
NMC has already started hourly trips of Aapli Bus from Sitabuldi to AIIMS. One can reach the institute by metro as well. The Khapri metro station is the nearest. A shuttle bus service is likely to start soon.
The first phase of the AIIMS project is nearing completion. The OPD and AYUSH Complex, Dharamshala (where admitted patients’ relatives will stay), library, lecture halls, laboratories, multi-storied residential quarters and hostels for faculty and students, guesthouse and in-house sports facility — are up and running.
AIIMS Nagpur Director, Maj Gen (Dr) VA Dutta (SM), most of the faculty and all the 150 students live here in their residential facilities.
The construction of the 300-bed in-patient department (IPD), to be equipped with 24 modular OTs, ICUs and imaging facilities such as MRI and CT scan, is in full swing and is likely to be ready by the end of 2020.
With 150 students, proficient faculty (93) picked through the national selection process, AIIMS is all set to serve patients in Nagpur.
AIIMS Nagpur has also conducted numerous out-reach programmes, drives and camps.
“We have adopted three schools and one urban PHC (UPHC) in Nandanwan. From the time we started providing services at this OPD, the patient count has increased to 2451 from the 500-odd in the first year of its adoption. We are also in the process of adopting a rural PHC in Bela,” said the director of AIIMS.
“Speciality clinics in some departments and stress clinics have also been started to cater to the special needs of the vulnerable population of Vidarbha,” she added.
MILESTONES
July 2014: In the 2014-15 budget speech, the government sanctioned Rs500 crore for setting up four new AIIMS
October 2015: AIIMS at Nagpur was approved by the cabinet at a cost of Rs1,577 crore
September 2017: Construction work on the permanent campus started in MIHAN area
July 2018: AIIMS Nagpur commenced the academic session 2018-19 from a temporary campus at GMCH with an intake of 50 MBBS students
June 2019: Shifting started from GMCH to the permanent campus
July 2019: A BMMS batch comprising 100 students started at the newly-established campus at MIHAN
Mid-2020: PG courses in pre-clinical and para-clinical subjects to begin
2021: MD/MS courses to start
July 2021: Super-speciality services such as gastroenterology, cardiology, neurology, neuro-surgery, oncology etc to start
WHAT AIIMS HAS FOR YOU
A multi-storied OPD spread over 32,520 sqm
OPD services for general medicine, general surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, ophthalmology, ENT, orthopaedics, dermatology, psychiatry and dentistry have started
Average footfall of 400-500 patients per day
The OPD complex also has pharmacy where medicines are dispensed at subsidized rates
Day care services and basic minor OT procedures began in January
SUB-SPECIALITY CLINICS
Department of obstetrics and gynaecology
High risk pregnancy on Tuesday (2pm onwards)
Reproductive health services on Wednesday (2pm onwards)
Gynaecological oncology on Thursday (2pm onwards)
Department of paediatrics
Pulmonology and asthma clinic (Every Thursday, 2pm onwards)
Paediatric neurology (Every Wednesday, 2pm onwards)
Developmental paediatrics (Every Friday, 11am onwards)
Paediatric haematology (2nd Tuesday of the month, 2pm onwards)
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