Mansukh Mandaviya emphasises to make all AIIMS institutes of global excellence

BHUBANESWAR: Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya while attending the 6th Central Institute Body (CIB) meeting of AIIMS here on Sunday said Centre’s vision is to make all AIIMS institutes of global excellence.
It can only happen with superior quality, clinical care, highest standards of medical education and cutting-edge research, he added.
AIIMS Bhubaneswar for the first time got a chance to organise CIB meeting. For the first time, CIB meeting was organized outside Delhi. CIB is the highest decision-making body of all AIIMS for finance, infrastructure, vacancy, recruitment, enforcement of policies, challenges and procurement.
During the meeting, he encouraged the dignitaries to take learnings from other institutes of national importance like IITs and IIMs. He highlighted the need for creation of metadata for artificial intelligence (AI) and a professional work culture that can provide superior outcomes.
He suggested all the AIIMS directors to create innovative models of functioning and present them in the next CIB meeting. He urged all the officials to work towards making AIIMS able to compete with the best in the world.
He advised the officials and other delegates in the meeting to collaboratively work on the identified domains of improvement and make detailed reports on them. “We have to collectively set a new benchmark in India’s healthcare system,” he added.
Agenda of the CIB meeting was to review compliance of decisions taken in earlier CIB meetings. They discussed the follow up of earlier Chintan Shivir recommendations and functioning of all new AIIMS.
Agendas discussed included overview of new AIIMS, sustainable financial model, enhancing patient satisfaction and use of information communication and technology (ICT) as enabler, reaping economies of scale in procurement, vision 2030, outcome based collaborative research and use of AI and follow up of remaining agendas of 5th CIB meeting.
Among others, Union minister of state for health Bharati Pravin Pawar, NITI Aayog member (health) VK Paul, Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan, officials of union ministry of health, director and executive directors of all AIIMS.
Earlier in the day, Mandaviya and Pawar visited the AIIMS Bhubaneswar and enquired about the well-being of patients. They also interacted with the staff and faculty members of the national institute.