he AIIMS Bhubaneswar on Wednesday signed an MoU with the Swami Vivekananda National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research (SVNIRTAR) Cuttack for academic, research and comprehensive rehabilitation care.
AIIMS Bhubaneswar Executive Director Dr Ashutosh Biswas and SVNIRTAR Director Dr PP Mohanty signed the MoU to jointly work on several aspects for holistic rehabilitation care.
Dr Biswas said the two prominent national institutes would work on AIIMS’ referral patients like neurology, neurosurgery, orthopaedics, burn and plastic surgery, paediatrics, medicine in AIIMS and departments of SVNIRTAR like physiotherapy, occupational therapy, orthopaedics to improve healthcare and research in specialised areas.
The MoU also aims to design various short-term academic programmes in the form of fellowship, collaborative research, conduct symposia, colloquium, workshops, seminars and conferences on chosen topics and areas to train students in both the institutions.
The collaboration would give an opportunity for exposure to acute care at AIIMS Bhubaneswar so that the rehabilitation facility can be programmed and initiated at a very early stage, said Dr Mohanty.