Poison Information Centre under the department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology at AII India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, was inaugurated here on Saturday in the AIIMS campus by President, AIIMS, Bhopal. It will provide information related to poisoning treatment/management to the treating clinician.
The clinician can contact through call or message or mail on following- Toll-free number – 180023331122, Mobile number – 9407304738/9407214738, Whatsapp/ text message - 9407304738/9407214738 and Email id – poisoninformationcentre@aiimsbhopal.edu.in.
Duty doctor in centre will ask questions about poison and will provide information after its confirmation in the software used in the poison information centre.
The software holds information about 3,50,000 poisons/ chemical substances. This service would be available 24X7 for all emergency/non emergency queries from AIIMS, Bhopal or outside.
There are 9 poison information centres in the country and after its inauguration on January 10, 2020 it will be the 10 th poison information centre.
During this occasion Director, AIIMS Bhopal, Prof Sarman Singh, Medical Superintend, Dr Manisha Shrivastava, Dean (Academic), Prof Arneet Arora, Deputy Director (Admin.), Shramdeep Sinha, I/c Financial Advisor, Superintending Engineer, Jeetendra Kumar Saxena, Registrar, Benny Abrahm, Senior Administrative Officer, Gaurav Dwivedi, PPS to Director, Soumya Anie Tripathi, Administrative officer, Vishal Kumar Gupta, Faculty members of FMT Department and other Officers were present.
