AIIMS Jammu to have 3,000 to 4,000 employees

Getting 183 senior doctors, 800 nurses in phase-I

Jammu: Jammu’s first tertiary care hospital, AIIMS Jammu, which is coming up with a revised budget of Rs 1,800 crore on 226.84 acres (1,815 kanals) of land at Vijaypur and is likely to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in February-March 2024, will have a minimum staff strength of 3,000 regular employees.
Most of the recruitments are coming through two All-India competitions, even as some junior cadres are being selected by a local committee at AIIMS Jammu.
“We will be having a regular staff of 3,000 to 4,000 employees in 46 categories. We are going to operate a total of 50 departments—30 general and 20 super speciality departments. In the first phase, we are getting a total of 183 senior specialist doctors and faculty members. Until today, 88 doctors have joined. We are also getting 800 nurses out of which 450 have been selected and they have joined”, Executive Director of AIIMS Jammu, Dr Shakti Gupta, revealed to The News Now.
While the selected doctors have received a special short duration training course of two weeks, the selected nurses are currently under a 6-month training course at AIIMS New Delhi. The hospital-cum-deemed university would conduct undergraduate, postgraduateand post-doctoral programmes like MBBS, MD, MS, DM and MCh in different streams of medicine and surgery.
Currently a makeshift campus is operating at a former private IT college at Meeransahab where four batches of 50, 61, 62 and 62 MBBS students have been admitted respectively in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
Besides, a Nursing College of AIIMS Jammu has been already made functional with the admission of 60 candidates for BSc Nursing. Dr Gupta said that upon its completion, the MBBS intake would be raised to 100 seats each year while AIIMS Jammu would continue to admit 60 candidates for BSc nursing every year.
Initially some practical training courses were conducted for MBBS students at Rishikesh (Uttarakhand). However, all such practical courses are now managed at the Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu, close to the AIIMS Jammu makeshift headquarters, and a Government Hospital at Gandhi Nagar, Jammu.
The super speciality hospital will have 750 beds, including 46 trauma and emergency beds, 193 ICU beds, 20 operation theatres, helipad, a 1,000-seat auditorium besides MRI, CT and Cath Lab equipped with the most modern technology.
The departments would include General Medicine, General Surgery, Cardiology, CVTS, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Gastroenterology, Gastroentero Surgery, Medical Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Urology, Nephrology, Pediatric Surgery, Burn and Plastic Surgery, Nuclear Medicine, ENT, Dermatology, Dentistry, Dermatology, CFM, Anaesthesiology, Anatomy, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Pathology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Psychiatry, Radiology and Pulmonary Medicine.
Authorities are also working on a plan to develop Distance Education Centres and a Simulation Laboratory programmed with the latest Artificial Intelligence innovations.
In addition to multiple hospital blocks and academic blocks, a night shelter, Ayush building, convention centre, guesthouse and club, six hostel buildings are being raised for married and unmarried UG/PG students—separately for males and females. Multiple residential blocks are also being completed for nursing students. Male and female students will also have separate dining halls on the premises.
The facilities being raised at the campus also include a community shopping centre, open air theatre, animal facility, solid waste management, electric substation, solar energy charging station, solar street lights, fire station, Police post, swimming pool, gymnasium, 24x7 digital library, stadium, fully air-conditioned indoor sports complex and a crèche for babies. A soft music supply channel will connect the entire residential area.
“We have completed 95 per cent of our work and are now waiting for the inauguration by the Prime Minister. Some equipment is procured from within the country, some from overseas. A lot of coordination is involved in all turnkey jobs. Some works may continue even after the inauguration. But we are hopeful to make the hospital fully functional within the next 4-5 months”, Dr Gupta added.
Dr Gupta, who joined AIIMS Jammu as Executive Director in July 2021, following his retirement as Medical Superintendent and Head of the Hospital Administration Department at AIIMS New Delhi, is a permanent resident of Jammu with extensive knowledge and experience in Hospital Administration at AIIMS New Delhi. He was also associated with the establishment of AIIMS-like hospitals in some of India’s neighbouring countries.

Updated On 1/15/2024 2:33:36 AM