OPD at Bathinda AIIMS to start from Sept 1: Harsimrat

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, July 15

Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal today announced that the OPD facilities for 10 departments will start at AIIMS, Bathinda, from September 1.

Talking to mediapersons, Harsimrat, who visited the AIIMS site to review work on the Rs 750-crore medical college and hospital, announced that while the OPD facilities would start in September, the medical college and hospital would become fully operational in June next year.

“The first batch of MBBS students would be shifted from the transit campus of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, to AIIMS in Bathinda in December,” she said, adding that the recruitment of faculty members for AIIMS medical college had already been done.

She said the first batch of MBBS would have 50 seats, the admission process for which is already underway. She also reviewed the progress of the work on the 66KV power grid which would facilitate power supply on the AIIMS campus.

“We dreamt of this project when our people had to go to Ludhiana, Chandigarh and Bikaner for healthcare facilities. Now, the people of Malwa region will have access to world-class medical facilities near home,” she added.

The minister was given a brief about the progress of the project by the construction agency as well as the PGI mentoring team, which is supervising the entire project. She was told that faculty had been hired for the medical college and that other appointments were also being planned to ensure that the medical college and hospital started functioning at optimum capacity from next year.