AIIMS Jammu Director, GMC Principal discuss possible collaboration between institutes

Jammu: Executive Director AIIMS Vijaypur, Jammu Dr Shakti Gupta on Thursday met Principal GMC Jammu, Dr Shashi Sudhan Sharma and officers of GMC administration to discuss Coordination and Cooperation between the two premier health institutions.

Dr Gupta said that 50 students of 2020 batch are already undergoing training at AIIMS Rishikesh and these students along with new 125 students of 2021 batch shall be joining AIIMS, Vijaypur this year and these students shall utilize the classrooms and teaching labs of GMC Jammu.

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Further, he plans to set up an AIIMS campus office of Director, Deputy Director and a video conferencing facility at GMC, Guest house for better coordination and intends to provide all super-speciality services to people of Jammu.

The Principal GMC assured full co- operation from GMC Jammu and said that collaboration in terms of training of human resource and exchange of ideas/ vision between two institutes shall definitely lead to improvement in healthcare delivery services to the people of Jammu.

She informed that GMC Jammu is planning to set up a Trauma centre and a state of the art ophthalmology institute in the near future.

To nominate Dr Arvind Kohli, who is member of GMC Faculty Guest house as Nodal Officer to coordinate with officials of AIIMS Vijaypur, Jammu.

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