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Background
Source:
1. The Times of India, Dec 27 2014
2. India Today
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi was established by the AIIMS Act of 1956. AIIMS was created to serve as a nucleus for nurturing excellence in all aspects of health care.The institute has comprehensive facilities for teaching, research and patient-care. Teaching and research are conducted in 42 disciplines.
For a long time, it remained the only medical institute of its kind in the country providing super-speciality care at an affordable cost. The act was amended in 2012 and six new AIIMS were established at other locations. The waiting period for surgery in various departments of AIIMS, Delhi shows the immense burden of patients on the institute. There is obviously no waiting period for emergency cases, but for some other cases it can stretch up to five years
2012-15: Statistics of patients
The Times of India, Dec 07 2015
Records show 10 patients die at AIIMS daily More than 10 patients die daily on an average at the country's premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), according to data provided by the health ministry . As many as 4,432 patients were reported to have died in 2012-13, 4,302 in 2013-14, 4,467 in 2014-15 and 2,802 deaths were registered at the institute till October 2015.
Health ministry officials said that the institute is catering to a large number of patients from across the country on a daily basis, who are often referred to the hospital at critical stages. AIIMS attends to more than 8,000 patients every day in its OPDs and around 400 people in the hospital's casualty wing everyday.
The maximum number of deaths were reported from departments like gastroentrology where 536, 448, 403 and 223 people died in 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 respectively and the Jai Prakash Narayan Trauma Center which registered 631, 624, 544 and 472 deaths during the same period.
“A large number of critical and serious patients with multiple comorbidities get admitted for treat ment at AIIMS. The institute has created high dependency units (HDUs) in several wards in a bid to reduce the mortality rate,“ said a senior official at the ministry.
He said that keeping in view the admission rate of critical patients at AIIMS, the government has approved additional 85 HDU beds and 106 ICU beds in the last three years.
The official added that in order to keep with the increasing patient load, the government has also taken steps to augment tertiary care facilities, including setting up of new AIIMSlike institutions, strengthening super specialities and setting up of the State Cancer Institutes and Tertiary Cancer Care Centers in government medical colleges.
2015
Ranked 1st in category Medical Colleges
In 2015, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences was rated the No.1 college in the category Medical Colleges in the rankings released by India Today.
