First CIB meet outside Delhi at AIIMS, Bhubaneswar on January 8

BHUBANESWAR: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar is all set to host a crucial meeting of the central institute body (CIB), the highest empowered committee of all AIIMS, on January 8. This is for the first time that the CIB meet is being organised outside AIIMS Delhi. The meeting will be chaired by Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya.

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and MoS for Health and Family Welfare Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar will attend the meeting along with union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan, presidents, directors and deputy directors (administration) of 22 AIIMS and CIB members, including some MPs.

Elaborate arrangements are being made for the national meet as around 150 delegates, including the highest authorities of all new AIIMS and senior health professionals, are expected to assemble here.

“Apart from the review on financial, infrastructure and recruitment status of all new AIIMS, several contentious issues and enforcement of policies are expected to be discussed in the CIB meet,” said an AIIMS official.

The body is also likely to take a decision on the much-awaited rotation of headship in departments and centres at all AIIMS. Earlier, a five-member expert panel was framed to consider the proposal of rotation of headship after every five years.

Though the proposal was discussed in the CIB meeting in 2021, a detailed deliberation on this issue was demanded by some members.