ammu:Finally the wait is over for the patients fighting against the chronic diseases and are travelling out in the neighbouring states for the treatment as the Out Patient Department (OPD) facility is expected to commence in the month of September at All India Institute of Medical Sciences coming up at Vijaypur in Samba district of Jammu region.
The foundation of Jammu AIIMS was laid on February 3, 2019 by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Vijaypur and the multifacility structure will be ready by March-April 2023.
“The OPD facility is most likely to start this year in September for the patients at Jammu AIIMS to be delivered by the specialized doctors and will relieve the patients,” an official said.
“The construction of Jammu AIIMS is in its final leg,” he added and said that the education of two batches of MBBS classes in AIIMS was earlier underway in the building of Kathua Medical College but now in a four-storey building at Miran Sahib, R Spura from March this year and the classes will also be shifted to AIIMS at Vijaypur from next year.
“The AIIMS is being built under CPWD and the company executing the construction work is expected to complete the work by March-April 2023,” he added.
He further said that the target of September 2023 was set to complete the construction but the good thing is that the AIIMS will be ready six months before its scheduled deadline while its opening will be decided very soon.
“The AIIMS hospital being built in Vijaypur will be the second largest hospital in India and the OPD is starting from September, in which AYUSH block will be specially started,” said an official.
Official sources however, said that Jammu AIIMS will have a hospital building with all medical facilities besides Academic Administration Block for medical studies, hostel facility, auditorium for seminars, South Block will have a residential complex for the staff, which will have all the accommodation facilities including meals, indoor games facility, sports ground and other facilities.
They said that AIIMS will have a facility of 4450 beds in three phases, adding in the first phase, 750 beds, 1500 in the second phase and 2200 beds in the third phase will be installed.
“The AIIMS will have special facility for the cases of neuro surgery, heart surgery, kidney transplant, ophthalmology, orthopedics and cancer treatment for people who are rushing PGI Chandigarh and other hospitals outside,” sources added and said that AIIMS will be India’s first trauma care center in Jammu, in which an effort is going on with the Israel Embassy of the Indian Health Department to rank among the top ten hospitals in the world.
