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All India Institute of Medical Sciences-Delhi announces the addition of five new OTs, taking the total number of OTs to 11 at the Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre. This means that the country's standalone trauma centre in the public sector will be able to handle double the number of surgeries — nearly 2,500 — in accident cases each month.

The operation theatres shut after major fire incident at the Nehru Hospital in Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh were made functional after 48 hours. After major fire on late Monday night in the computer battery room of Block-C in Nehru Hospital many services were suspended including elective surgeries. As per Kaushal, bone marrow transplants in C-Block …

PATNA: Elective surgeries have been practically put on hold at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences after 14 of the 30 resident doctors and medical student in its anesthesiology department have tested positive for Covid-19 in the last couple of days, said the dean of the institute. At AIIMS Patna, 14 of the 30 resident doctors and medical student …

A new master plan for redeveloping the premiere All India Institute of Medical Sciences will add 3,000 beds to the hospital, including 300 for emergency services, AIIMS director Dr Randeep Guleria said on Saturday. The hospital will also add 50 new operation theatres and a dedicated infectious diseases ward over the next seven years, he said. Dr Guleria said the …