AIIMS Patna to soon get kidney transplant facility

Patna: The All Indian Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) Patna, as part of its ongoing healthcare expansion process, is set to establish a new kidney transplant facility within three months. 

In order to provide training to doctors and healthcare workers of AIIMS Patna in kidney transplant, the institute has also signed a memorandum of understanding with the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI Chandigarh), whose experts would begin the training procedure. 

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In December last year, the institute had set up a nephrology department. AIIMS-Patna director Dr Gopal Krushna Pal said that they could expand their healthcare services due to the new recruitments of faculties at different branches. The nephrology department also began after the arrival of new recruits. 

Speaking to TOI, Dr Pal said, "Even cardiology and neurology department, which were closed after super specialists had left, has again been made functional." He added that there is a good inflow of patients to these new facilities.  

During the first phase of recruitment performed in November 2022, the hospital appointed 91 faculties for different departments. In the second recruitment phase conducted in February this year, 40 faculties were appointed, thus bringing the total number of recruitments to 131.

The institute is also planning to set up a separate critical care hospital with a 300-bed intensive care unit (ICU) by November 2024 for critically ill patients. The central public workers' department is looking after the construction work and the construction work has already begun. Around Rs 120 crore has been sanctioned by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) for this project. 

Meanwhile, a burn hospital would start functioning in August this year, and a budget for the construction of a separate academic block has also been approved by the ministry. The new block would be used for research and academic activities. 

Further, an advanced cancer centre, a maternity and child hospital, and an advanced centre for geriatric medicine would also be coming up on 25 acres of land promised by the state government. 

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