No proposal to rename AIIMS: Union Health Minister informs Lok Sabha

New Delhi: There is no proposal in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) to rename the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) across the country, Union Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya informed the Lok Sabha recently.

The Central government on Friday said that there is no proposal to rename the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) across the country.

The clarification came from the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare while he was responding to a series of questions related to renaming AIIMS raised by MP Shri Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu.

“There is no proposal at present in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for renaming the AIIMS,” said Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya.  

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The Minister said this in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha on whether the government is planning to rename 20 AIIMS in the country after freedom fighters, regional heroes or their distinct geographical identity including the one in Andhra Pradesh.

In response to a another question seeking details of the existing arrangement regarding the counselling for Undergraduate (UG) and Postgraduate (PG) medical admissions across the country, Mandaviya said: “The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) conducts the counselling for seats of undergraduate (UG/MBBS) and PG medical courses as per the scheme devised by the Supreme Court.”

There is no proposal for centralised counselling for UG or PG medical courses for the academic year 2023-24, he added. 

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that all 23 premier Health institutes, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will get specific names which are currently known by their generic name and distinguished only by the location. The government has firmed up a proposal to give specific names to all the AIIMS, including that in Delhi, based on regional heroes, freedom fighters, historical events or monuments of the area or their distinct geographical identity.

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