An NSS Bureau of the AIIMS Bhubaneswar was launched on Monday in presence of Director Dr Gitanjali Batmanabane, Dean Professor Debashis Hota, Medical Superintendent Dr Sachidananda Mohanty and DDA PK Ray.
Besides, Regional Director NSS Bhubaneswar Sarita Patel, SNO cum Deputy Secretary Higher Education Government of India Dr Ramesh Chandra Behera, Assistant Coordinator NSS ETI OUAT Nirada Barana
Khuntia along with other officials of the institute were present.Assistant Professor CM and FM Dr Priyamadhab Behera was given the charge of programme coordinator while other faculty members, including Dr Prabhas Ranjan Tripathy, Dr Prajna Paramita Giri, Dr Sritam Swaroop Jena, Hepsi Bai Joseph, Sam Jose were given the charge of Programme Officers.
To start with, 375 students from MBBS, BSc Nursing, MSc Nursing, BSn Paramedical streams were enrolled as NSS volunteers. On the occasion of inauguration, the volunteers conducted a health awareness programme in the nearby slum affected with water logging.
Around 20 volunteers with Dr Priyamadhab Behera distributed food packets , did general health check up and sensitised for Covid immunization.
They detected a sick child with respiratory disease with saturation of 70% who was later shifted to AIIMS for further treatment. In the morning, a blood donation programme of AB+ group volunteers, a rare blood group, was also organised.