AIIMS Throws Challenge to Check Easy Access to Medical Care
AIIMS Director Dr M. Srinivas on Wednesday. Image credit The Raisina Hills
AIIMS-Delhi to Focus on At-Home OPD with Telemedicine & Critical Care
By Manish Anand
New Delhi, December 25: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Director Dr M. Srinivas on Wednesday threw a challenge for anyone to check the ease of access of medical facilities in the national capital. He stated that the AIIMS in Delhi has left behind the image of a crowded medical campus.
“You can come as a dummy patient and check the ease of access to the medical facilities. Now, the waiting time for surgical operations, tests, and OPD consultation has substantially been reduced. The perception of the patients squatting on floors and seeking help to cut the queue needs a fresh reality check,” added Dr Srinivas.
The AIIMS Director was responding to a question that the people carry an impression of a crowded campus to prefer private hospitals. He gave an account of additions in capacities to meet the demand of the patients.
“Touts have been eliminated. The process of patient registration is now online, and the jugad of old times no more works,” added Dr Srinivas. He asserted that the patients now don’t need to search of recommendations from MPs or others and directly access services through online registration.
He also stated that the AIIMS in New Delhi is seeking to evolve into a critical care institution. The AIIMs in Delhi in a bid to discourage general ailment patients from visiting the institution is seeking to scale up the telemedicine facilities.
“We aim to boost the telemedicine facilities with availability of doctors to advice patients through telemedicine facilities. Our aim is to focus on critical care and patients referred by other hospitals, including AIIMS from other cities,” said Dr M. Srinivas, Director of the AIIMs, New Delhi, while briefing the media persons on Wednesday.
Dr Srinivas gave an account of the improved infrastructure at the AIIMS in New Delhi where the whole land bank has been utilised now to create additional capacities. With the use of IT, Dr Srinivas stated that the patients now can access medical care through online booking facilities.
The AIIMS in New Delhi has created 425-bed capacity in the mother-child ward. The new facility also has a state-of-the-art NICU, which is equipped with modern new-born baby care facilities.
Dr Srinivas stated that the improvement in the infrastructure, which included 50 per cent additional operation theatre, has resulted in a lesser waiting period for patients seeking treatment at the premier medical institution.
Dr Srinivas also told the media persons that efforts are underway to create an inter-AIIMS referral system by which critical care patients can be referred to Delhi while rest of the medical treatments can be carried locally. “We envision a future when only patients needing critical care come to AIIMS, Delhi, and telemedicine can take care of the other healthcare needs of the people,” added Dr Srinivas.
He also stated that there has been 40 per cent ICU bed capacity addition along with 34 per cent additional in-patient facilities. Dr Srinivas also said that there have been significant improvements in other services such as laboratory and radiology.
Dr Srinivas and senior doctors of the AIIMS in New Delhi showed the new additions in facilities to the media persons as a part of an outreach of the Good Governance Cell of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The former BJP national general secretary Vinay Sahasrabuddhe and Sumeet Bhasin, Director of the Public Policy Research Centre (PPRC) were also present on the occasion.
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