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Under the new plan, all the three campuses within the AIIMS premises would be revamped with enhanced floor area ratio and increased ground coverage.

NEW DELHI, Nov. 14

THE country's premier healthcare institute, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, today unveiled its Rs 1,300 crore `dream vision' for the development of facilities and services to cater to its increasing number of patients visiting the institute. AIIMS has about eight thousand people visiting the institute per day.

The Director of AIIMS, Dr P.K.Dave, told media-persons that the `AIIMS Re-Development Plan-2025', designed by HUDCO, was spread over a period of 25 years and the financial resources for the first phase of development had already been allocated for in the 10th five-year Plan. The first phase comprises the setting up of a dental college, a mother and child hospital and a revamped cancer facility, among other things.

He admitted that in the past the development of the institute had been haphazard, in the absence of a perspective plan. However, under the new plan, all the three campuses within the AIIMS premises would be revamped with enhanced floor area ratio and increased ground coverage, he said.

Besides the already mentioned projects, other facilities on the anvil include a trauma centre, a national facility for spinal surgery, a liver and digestive diseases centre, and an immunology centre and school for public health.

AIIMS has already embarked on its telemedicine project on a trial basis, he said.

The plan also proposes augmentation of public utility services to meet the demand for water and electricity, besides taking care of the increasing quantities of sewage, drainage and solid waste, Dr Dave said.

``Apart from setting up a captive power plant of 21 MW capacity, there will be rainwater harvesting and wastewater recycling systems,'' the Director said.

The master plan for the re-development of AIIMS has been prepared by the Housing and Urban Development Corporation. While it has already been cleared by the Delhi Urban Arts Commission, it still requires clearance by the New Delhi Municipal Corporation.

Meanwhile, the hospital is undertaking efforts to improve the out-patient department by streamlining the patients visiting the institute into major or minor illnesses, through a process of screening.

Two `dharmshalas' or charity rest-houses are being set up for the relatives of the patients being admitted to the hospital.

Touch of AIIMS in Kabul: AIIMS has been invited to help `resurrect' the Child Health hospital in Kabul, the Director said. "We sent our team there and fortunately there has not been much damage to the hospital." The hospital is training Afghan medical profressionals, he added.

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