All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal

The government of India has launched the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi with the objectives of :
 i) correcting regional imbalances in the availability of affordable and reliable tertiary healthcare services;
 ii) augmenting facilities for quality medical education creating a critical mass of doctors and 
 iii) conducting research in the country relevant to the area. 
 These institutions will be expected to absorb talent, provide highly trained medical and paramedical manpower for the country and conduct research in national and regional health problems. The institutes will be outside the purview of the Medical Council of India will be allowed to experiment with innovations in medical education and serve as advisory bodies for government health policies.

Administration:

The AIIMS, New Delhi model will be adopted and adapted. Unlike the Postgraduate Institutes which lack the basic departments like Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology, General Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynaecology etc, the new AIIMS will have these departments as well as the superspecialty departments like neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, urology, endocrinology etc. In addition, departments of Accident & Emergency, Biostatistics, Medical Engineering, Hospital administration, Genetics, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Telemedicine, Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Education Cell etc are also planned. This institution should also provide a good opportunity to promote basic scientists and biotechnologists and studies in genomics, proteomics and metabonomics providing opportunity to work in close proximity of rich clinical material. A lot of effort would go into locating, enticing, appointing and retaining talented faculty as it is the faculty that makes an institution great. Heads of Department would be strengthened by having a say in faculty appointments and promotions and writing annual confidential reports. Annual self assessment by faculty would be updated as e-portfolio. Each department shall have a 5-year development plan. The entire campus township is likely to have Enterprise Resource Planning with high quality inter and intranet, databases for patients, staff and students, store house management, voice and image transmission and security systems. A purchase department will facilitate purchases in all departments. E-tender policy is will be followed for maximum transparency and efficiency.

The College:

The ‘non-clinical’ departments shall all be roped into providing some or the other clinical services to keep them in the hub of activity. For example: Department of Anatomy - embalmming, cyto genetics, DNA finger printing, osteology & ultrasound, Department of Physiology - Pulmonary Function Tests, Cardiac Function, Cardiac Cycle, Blood Volume, Yoga, Plethysmography, Department of Biochemistry- entire Clinical Biochemistry, Community and Family Medicine - Family Planning and Triage clinics, Rural & Urban Community Health, Pharmacology- Drug Monitoring, Pharmaco-Epidemiology, Pathology- Cyto and Histopathology, Clinical Autopsy, Microbiology- Bacteriology and Virology, fungal cultures, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology- clinical and hospital generated medico-legal postmortems, Laboratory Medicine & Biotechnology - high-end Genomics, Proteionomics, Metabonomics and Immunology besides training in biotechnology.

The Hospital & Patient Care:

We are building a modern centrally air-conditioned hospital with separate entrances for trauma centre, medical emergencies, obstetrics and neonatal emergencies, outdoor, indoor and cancer patients. The out-patient department is planned to have large ‘triage-clinics’ looking at common non-communicable diseases like diabetes and hypertension, seasonal infectious diseases, minor surgical problems, family planning including laparoscopic tubectomy, IUCD and no scalpel vasectomy, vaccination of children besides carrying out all the national health programs. The triage clinics in the AIIMS hospital and adopted primary health centres will be totally run by the Department of Community and Family Medicine that will also give MD degree in Community and Family Medicine to create highly trained family physicians. The institution would provide general/basic medical services as well as advanced specialized treatments like bone marrow transplants, radical prostatectomy, robotic surgery, cardiac valve replacement, organ transplants and stem cell therapy. State-of-the-art 20 modular operating rooms and 7 non-modular operating rooms will be provided besides the supporting and primary care, intensive care units for adults, children and neonates. Nominal hospital charges will be levied to all except those certified by the treating physician. A Welfare Society would be formed to work on ‘no profit no loss’. Low price outlets for drugs and disposable medical appliances would be set up at key places on the campus. A separate paid outpatient and inpatient would be running for affluent class. The income generated would be used to fund the treatment of poor patients. Medical records would be fully computerized including X-ray and ultrasound images. Cleanliness, linen, sterilization etc would be mechanized and outsourced. Private partnerships would be entered into for CT scans, MRI scans and maintenance of sensitive equipment like ventilators, monitors and USG machines etc. Ward services, cleaning, porter, security, mail distribution, kitchen and restaurants, laundry and ERP can be outsourced, with hiring and firing power to departmental heads. Great emphasis will be laid on good work culture, and courteous, patient friendly behaviour from all levels of hospital staff. Emphasis will be on outreach health care or service at the doorstep with e-health record. The institute plans to start clinics in the community providing expertise in geriatric medicine, hospice care, long term acute care, palliative care and bereavement services.

The AIIMS Bhopal logo signifies the light of erudition spreading all over, emanating from abode of stupa of Sanchi.

Sanchi, in Sanskrit literally means – ‘to measure’ and represents complete harmony between mind, body and soul.

The two serpents – signify the two shades of human existence which physicians encounter – Life & Death , Health & Disease.

The saying “Sharirmadhyam khalu dharmasadhanam” has been quoted from a dramatic poem called Kumarasambhavam by Mahakavi Kalidasa. It means “ a healthy body is the means of fulfilments of dharma that is duty”.

The olive branch symbolizes peaceful living.

AIIMS, Bhopal has the vision to make it as one of the excellent Health Care Centers to serve the people of Central India as envisaged under the PMSSY with the following milestones:
 
A.      Construction
1.       New building of College of Nursing in AIIMS premises is completed and made operational.
2.       14 Modular Operation Theatre have been completed and started functioning.
3.       All the 135 blocks of the buildings in AIIMS, Bhopal have been constructed and handed over to the respective departments.
4.       The RDA Canteen in AIIMS premises, a Deanery block in the Medical College and Poison Information Centre (PIC) in AIIMS, Bhopal have been commenced.
 
B.      Services
1.       Emergency and Trauma Services have been started 24x7 for the people.
2.       Advanced & Basic Life Support Ambulance service under Trauma & Emergency Department of Hospital has been flagged off and made 
       operational.
3.       The prestigious scheme of Govt of India “Ayushman Bharat” under PMSSY has been initiated in OPD area of AIIMS Hospital.
4.       Blood Component separation unit and Apheresis facility at Transfusion Medicine and Blood Bank department of the hospital have 
       been made operational.
5.       After inaugurating the 3 Tesla MRI in 2018-19, the radiological services recorded in 2019-20 is  8123 CTs against 5814 CTs in 2018-19: 
       6463, MRIs against 3635 in 2018-19; 23726 USGs against 18475 in 2018-19. The Department recorded 104 DSAs, 70 Mammography 
       and 113 DRF in the year 2019-2020. Even during the COVID-19 outbreak when regular OPDs were closed, these investigative and 
       diagnostic laboratories carried out a good number of investigations which explains the number of patients reaching AIIMS, Bhopal for 
       emergency services only. This shows the confidence of people picked to a great extent.
6.       Various services were started during the time like Cardiology OPD Ward, Orthopedic Ward, Trauma & Emergency, Psychiatric Ward, 
       Neurosurgery Ward, Oncology Ward, Burn & Plastic Surgery Ward, Corneal Transplant, Occuloplasty Services, ENT Speech Laboratory, 
       Eye Bank and many other facilities as a result of which the Bed Strength also rose from 574 to 793 with 30 functional department 
       which includes 18 Specialties and 12 super-specialties.
 
C.      Grievance Cell
1.       A total of 15 grievances were received in the Director’s Portal for Grievance Addressal and all were addressed and sorted out. Further 
       CPGRAMS portal received a total of 233 grievance cases out of which 230 cases have been disposed off.
 
 
  
D.      Education, Research & Patient Care
1.       The Institute is striving to excel in Education, Research (National & International) and patient care. AIIMS Bhopal is one of the partners 
       in National Knowledge Network (NKN) connecting 52 Medical College all over the country to share update knowledge in the field.
2.       AIIMS, Bhopal has surpassed all other new AIIMS, in the field of Research. A total of 233 Publications were made in the last two years. 
       The Faculty of AIIMS, Bhopal is mainly carrying out research in tuberculosis, cancer diagnostics, infectious diseases, chronic kidney
       disease & environmental toxins, health care delivery system, severe acute malnutrition, health effects of yoga & meditation and 
       antimicrobial stewardship etc. Also, a total of 180 proposals for extramural funding were submitted by the Faculty of AIIMS, Bhopal to 
       different agencies in last one year and 45 projects have been approved for funding. The premier funding agencies include ICMR, DST, 
       DBT, BIRAC, DHR, UNICEF, MP Govt. and the total grant outlay of projects sanctioned in this period is Rs 25.11 crores. Centre of 
       Excellence in Labour, Delivery and Recovery (LDR), and Medical Device Adverse Event Monitoring Center in Dept. of Pharmacology 
       under the aegis of Indian Pharmacoepia Commission, Ghaziabad have been established with Government funding.
3.       For the first time for any AIIMS, the AIIMS, Bhopal has established a Centre for the Translational Medicine which will have dedicated 
       faculty and state-of-the-art infrastructure and equipment like Whole Genome Sequencer, Automated Nucleic Acid Extractor, Flow 
       Cytometer, Automatic Absorption System, the In-Vivo Image Analyser to conduct the Drug and Vaccine Trial in animals. The Faculty of 
       this Centre will also be mandated to develop new diagnostic and human devices, drugs, vaccines and systems based on Artificial 
       Intelligence. 
 
E.      Administration
1.       95 candidates have joined in various Group ‘A’ and ‘B’ posts on regular and deputation basis.
2.       In Group ‘B’ posts, 539 Nursing Staff have been filled along with other 186 SRs and 271 JRs.
 
F.      Covid-19
1.       AIIMS, Bhopal has initiated the first clinical trial for the management of COVID-19, and more trials are being started with funding from 
       CSIR, WHO, ICMR. State of Madhya Pradesh is actively providing various facilities to encourage academic activities for mutual benefit
       and patients as main beneficiary. The AIIMS, Bhopal is helping the State Government in various ways, such as mentoring 
       medical colleges of the state for COVID-19 testing. Our faculty is advising the state through various task forces and advisory committees. 
       Further, through untiring efforts of the Institute, the Institute is able to get huge CSR funding from PSUs as well as from private 
       organizations. AIIMS, Bhopal has received a total of Rupees 10,38,95,309/- as CSR funding, and we are establishing an instrumentation 
       of state-of-art, high-end central facility using this fund.
 
2.       Institute also provides its lab facilities on short term basis for encouraging research activities. It is also important to 
       mention that the Institute has started the Regional Virology Lab (RVL) along with TB Lab which is of first of its kind in the State.
       The Institute has also established a Cancer Treatment Centre with a holistic approach in association with AIIMS, New Delhi.
 
3.       Regarding the COVID-19 related activities taken up in AIIMS, Bhopal, press notes are updated on daily basis. It is important that 
       we have low mortality rate in patient who is referred to us in very critical condition. AIIMS, Bhopal has done maximum tests in 
       entire India, as far as Government Institutions are concerned, even more than AIIMS, Delhi.
 

The recent achievements of AIIMS, Bhopal include
1.       AIIMS Bhopal was awarded consolation award of INR 50,00,000/- by the Hon’ble Minister of Health and 
          Family Welfare as a part of   “KAYAKALP”, consecutively for 2018 and 2019.
2.       On the heavy demand of senior citizens and employees of this institute, new OPD counters have been 
           made functional since October  2019.
3.       Under Swachhata Action Plan sanitary napkin wending and incineration machines were installed in the 
           hospital and hostels in October  2019.
4.        For cancer care the Radiotherapy Department with state-of the-art cancer care, one of its kinds in
           Government sector in this region has become functional since November 2019.
5.       AIIMS, Bhopal also carries out social outreach activities such as we participated with the doctors and 
           paramedical staff members in Rahat Medical Mission Camp held in Mandla in November 2019.