Govt to set up new 750 bed AIIMS in Deoghar, Jharkhand

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet has approved the setting up of a new All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Deoghar, Jharkhand. A provision of funds worth Rs 1103 crore has been approved for the project and the said AIIMS will be set up under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY).

The AIIMS at Deoghar will consist of a hospital with a capacity of 750 beds, trauma center facilities. Besides that, it will also host a medical college with an intake of 100 MBBS students per year and a nursing college with an intake of 60 B.Sc.(Nursing) students per year, residential complexes and allied facilities/services, broadly on the pattern of AIIMS, New Delhi. The hospital will also have 20 Specialty/Super Speciality Departments including 15 Operation Theatres. An Ayush Department with 30 beds for providing treatment facilities in the traditional system of medicine.

The setting up of new AIIMS at Deoghar will serve the dual purpose of providing super specialty health care to the population while also helping to create a large pool of doctors and other health workers in this region to be available for primary and secondary-level institutions/facilities being created under the National Health Mission (NHM).

Under the PMSSY, AIIMS has been established in Bhubaneswar, Bhopal, Raipur, Jodhpur, Rishikesh, and Patna. Work of AIIMS Rae Bareli (U.P.), Nagpur (Maharashtra), Kalyani (West Bengal) and Mangalagiri in Guntur (A.P.) is in progress. Construction work has also been awarded for AIIMS, Gorakhpur (U.P.).

Apart from the above, the AIIMS have also been sanctioned in Bathinda, Punjab in July 2016; Guwahati (Assam) in May 2017; and Bilaspur (Himachal Pradesh) in January 2018.