All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh


All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh is a medical college and hospital based in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India. The institute operates autonomously under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Minister for Health and Family Welfare, serves as the president. It is one of the Institutes of National Importance in India.

History

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bill, 2012 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 27 August 2012. This bill also replaced a recent Ordinance which allowed the six AIIMS institutes to become operational from September 2012. Lok Sabha passed the AIIMS Bill on 30 August 2012. The proposed measure will help the Centre change the status of its six new AIIMS institutes registered under the Indian Societies Registration Act to be an autonomous body corporated on the lines of the existing AIIMS in Delhi. The AIIMS Bill, 2012 was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on 3 September 2012. The Rajya Sabha passed the AIIMS Bill, 2012 on 4 September 2012. AIIMS started its academic sessions in August 2012. A 200-bed hospital at AIIMS Rishikesh was inaugurated by then Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on 10 February 2014.

Hospital

, AIIMS Rishikesh hospital has 880 beds, 15 functional modular operating theatres, 17 functional super speciality and 18 speciality functional.

Medical College and Nursing College

AIIMS started its MBBS course with 50 students and now has an intake capacity of 100 students per year. Nursing College has an intake of 60 students per year. It is the first AIIMS Nursing college to admit male students.

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