Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will formally inaugurate the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)-Bhubaneswar on February 26, informed its director Prof Ashok Mohapatra.
“Besides the Union Minister, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will also grace the occasion,” Mohapatra said.
According to official sources, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was earlier scheduled to dedicate the health institute to public but it was changed at the last moment.
The premier medical institute built over an area of 1,25,000 square metre have three operation theatres (OTs), a recovery ward, four high dependant units, a 10-bed ICU along with 150 beds spanning different specialities.
The hospital had started the OPD services in the basic disciplines of medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, dentistry and gynaecology in June last year. The number of disciplines has been increased to 24.
Besides a speciality sleep clinic, the AIIMS would open other speciality clinics like high-risk pregnancy, paediatric nephro-urology, head and neck oncology, lung cancer, infertility, hydrocephalus-spina bifida and cerebral palsy clinics.