Gorakhpur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Gorakhpur on Tuesday, the state government said. The Uttar Pradesh government making efforts to make eastern Uttar Pradesh a medical hub, state officials said.
The AIIMS, equipped with world class and specialist medical facilities, came up in Gorakhpur promising to start a new era of medical and health services in the Eastern UP, officials added. The demand for the establishment of AIIMS in Gorakhpur was one and a half decades old. There was a long mass movement since 2004 under the leadership of the then MP Yogi Adityanath. Yogi always raised his voice for strengthening the health facilities of eastern Uttar Pradesh. When Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister in the year 2014, this much-awaited demand of the people of eastern Uttar Pradesh was fulfilled through him.
After procedural formalities on July 22, 2016, PM had laid the foundation stone for it under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana. Meanwhile, in March 2017, when Yogi Adityanath became the Chief Minister, all the obstacles in its construction were removed.
The 300-bed AIIMS Gorakhpur, costing Rs. 1011 crore, will become functional with the inauguration by the Prime Minister. The capacity of the AIIMS hospital will be expanded to 750 in the coming days. With the inauguration, a 35-bed emergency ward will also come into service, which will provide quick treatment to critical patients.
The OPD (Outdoor Patient Department) of Gorakhpur AIIMS has already started from February 2019. So far about seven lakh people have come to the OPD of AIIMS. With the service of 14 general and 13 special OPDs, people will no longer have to go to other cities for consultation and treatment on any disease. Not only this, from the month of May this year, patients in IPD (Indoor Patient Department) have started taking advantage of medical facilities. With the admission of normal patients, more than two hundred general operations have been done so far, they added.
The new AIIMS is equipped with: Total 14 modular operation theaters, OPD of Medicine, General Surgery, Dentistry (Dental), Paediatrics, Gynaecology, Orthopedics, Dermatology, Psychiatry, Ophthalmology, ENT, Radiology, Diagnostic, PMR Hematology etc. It will have Pathology, digital x-ray, CT scan, MRI, ultrasound, Head and neck clinic in oncology department -Radiotherapy. Dual energy radiotherapy, brachytherapy and a CT simulator machines at a cost of Rs 18 crore.
It will have examination and treatment of hemophilia patients two oxygen plants (both liquid oxygen and air pressure based) Ayush Block and Nursing College. People from Eastern Uttar Pradesh as well as Bihar, Jharkhand and Nepal will get the benefit of the medical facilities of Gorakhpur AIIMS. According to an estimate, this AIIMS has become the largest centre with world-class specialist medical facilities for a population of about 70 million.
