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AIIMS urged to focus on `real issues'

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Medical students, resident doctors and faculty at the country's premier All-India Institute of Medical Sciences have in a written appeal to the Institute's General Body asked it to look at "real issues hampering the growth of the Institute and avoid any attempts to divide it''.

The group has listed out improved patient care services, human resources development and retention of staff, providing promotions and offering promotional avenues at the Institute, starting an online programme for management and administrative skills and computerisation of hospital services and e-governance as some of the most urgent needs that require the Governing Body's immediate attention.

"Increased patient load has stretched the hospital's infrastructure and manpower resource, at times adversely affecting the quality of services offered to the patients. We request the General Body members to guide the Institute in improving efficiency and appropriate utilisation of services. We also want work on the proposed specialty centres to be finished soon. There is also an urgent need for curriculum reforms for undergraduate education to keep pace with the fast changing medical field. There is also a need to strengthen the international exchange programme to help the Institute achieve its global leadership stature faster,'' said a representative of the students' union.

Various demands

The group is also demanding establishment of a world-class convention centre, better housing accommodation for faculty and students, immediate computerisation of health services and making the administration more effective.

"We seek the active involvement of the General Body members in making AIIMS a world-class institution. We need an environment that will help all of us to work with the sole mission of improving medical education, patient care and research in the country. We believe that AIIMS will progress further and make this country proud if the suggested measures are taken and various requests implemented,'' said the AIIMS Faculty Association president, Dr. B. K. Khaitan.

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