New in the New Year: New OPD at AIIMS, 277 Ayushman Arogya Mandir PHCs in Delhi

A senior official at AIIMS said the idea is to ensure that patients, who often end up consulting multiple doctors at the institute, do not have to travel from the main campus to the Rajkumari Amrit Kaur OPD. “We want the OPD patients to visit multiple doctors at one place only,” the official added.

Officials said the institute is also busy with the tendering process for a critical care block that is set to come up adjacent to the Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Center.

“In 2026, we will finish the tendering process and start construction of the building… The block will be readied for any future pandemic-like situation. It will comprise intensive care units, critical care beds, operation theatres, while also having arrangements to deliver children,” said the official.

Meanwhile, AIIMS is set to provide robotic training to doctors from the surgical branch. “In the next six months, training programmes will be arranged for such doctors. Two robotic machines have been arranged for the same. These programmes will be conducted on simulations and human cadaver,” said a senior doctor from AIIMS.
At the Union government-run RML Hospital, the new 11-storey super speciality block is set to be launched with 18 new operation theatres, new ultrasound and MRI machines as well as infrastructure to provide cancer treatment. “All these will be done in the next six months,” a doctor said.

Further, the Delhi Health department is set to launch 277 PHCs and 400 sub-health centres as part of the Ayushman Arogya Mandir initiative.

So far, 123 PHCs and 115 sub-health centres have been launched in the Capital. “The plan is to build 400 PHCs and 1,139 sub-health centres as part of the initiative,” said an official, adding that sites where the centres will be built are being identified.