AIIMS
AIIMS is a group of independent public medical colleges that came into being in the year 1956. With an objective to imbue the country with scientific culture, AIIMS was set up. AIIMS was commenced as a medical institute by an act of Parliament with an objective to enhance the teaching patterns in undergraduate as well as post graduate in the field of medical science and all its branches. It also aimed to attain self sufficiency in the field of post graduate medical sciences.
AIIMS has extensive facilities for research, teaching, and patient care. AIIMS carries different teaching programs in para-medical and medical courses for students who wish to attain degree in undergraduate and post graduate levels. It awards its own degrees. Research and Teaching are carried in 42 disciplines. AIIMS also operates a College of Nursing which trains the students for B. SC Hons Degree.
There are 25 clinical departments which includes 4 specialty centers that manage different kinds of diseases like dog bite cases, burn cases while the patients that suffer from infectious diseases are not entertained in AIIMS hospital. It has 60 bedded hospitals in CRHC at Ballabgarh which offers health cover to nearly 2.5 lakh populace.
Milestones
Some milestones in the history of AIIMS are listed below:
- In the year 1946, a committee of health survey and development was set up. The chairman of this committee was Sir Joseph Bhore. This committee recommended setting up of national medical center.
- A generous grant from the country New Zealand under the famous Colombo Plan made the laying of this foundation in the year 1952 which led to the commencement of AIIMS.
- Established its first center in Delhi in the year 1956.
- In the year 2012, it set up JNP-AIIMS in Patna, AIIMS Bhopal in Bhopal, AIIMS Bhubnaeswar in Bubaneswar, AIIMS Jodhpur in Jodhpur, AIIMS Raipur in Raipur and AIIMS Rishikesh in Rishikesh.
- Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Union health minister of India inaugurated AIIMS’s Outreach OPD on 24th November 2012.
- The AIIMS Amendment Bill was introduced on 27th August 2012, in the Lok Sabha, which was passed on 30th August 2012.
Specialties of AIIMS
- Orthopedics
- Cancer Care
- Neurosciences
- Nephrology & Urology
- Spine
- Gastroenterology
- Critical Care
- Preventive Health Care
Medical Care
AIIMS offers different medical care facilities in matters related to burn cases and dog bites. It promotes primary, secondary tertiary, curative, promotive and preventive health care facilities. It does not entertain any cases where people are infected with infectious diseases.
- Radiosurgery
- Cyberknife
- Bone Marrow Transplant
- Infertility Care
- Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
- Stem Cell Transplant
- Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Surgery
- MRI-HIFU - Non-Surgical treatment of Uterine Fibroids
- The Renaissance Robotic Surgical System
- Novalis TX
- Hand & Microsurgery
- Cosmetic Surgery
- Birmingham Hip Resurfacing
- Emergency & Trauma Services
- Bariatric Surgery
- Robotic Surgery
- Liver Transplant
Hospital Address
AIIMS
Address: Ansari Nagar East, Gautam Nagar, New Delhi, Delhi 110029
Phone: 011 2658 8500
Foreign patients being treated at AIIMS on the rise
NEW DELHI, MARCH 24:
The number of foreigners getting medical treatment at the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in the capital is on the rise since the last three years.
The number of foreign nationals treated at AIIMS has gone up to 544 in 2012 against 394 in 2010. The total number of foreigners treated at the Institute in 2011 was 491.
Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said during the first two months of the current year, as many as 79 foreigners have already been treated at AIIMS.
Many foreign patients come to India to get cheap medical treatment as the country is increasingly being favoured as a medical tourism destination.
However, the total number of tourists coming in for medical treatment is still in its infancy and the total percentage of medical tourists is less as compared to the total tourists coming to the country.
The Minister denied that a large number of foreign patients getting treatment in AIIMS at subsidised rates got themselves falsely registered as Indians in collusion with brokers/touts to avail the facility.
Before getting treated at AIIMS, patients need to get themselves registered with the Foreign Registration office and the record of all such patients treated at AIIMS are maintained at the Foreign Regional Registration Office at R K Puram in Delhi.
Foreigner patients have to provide their demographic parameters along with relevant documents like copies of passport to verify their genuineness
(This article was published on March 24, 2013)
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