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The Government is looking for land in the national capital and adjoining towns of Noida and Gurgaon to set up a second campus of the premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Friday.
Replying to the supplementaries during Question Hour, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said AIIMS currently gets 8,000 to 9,000 out patient visits everyday, putting pressure on the infrastructure of the 50-year-old institute.
“We are looking at setting up a second campus of AIIMS in Delhi, Noida or Gurgaon and are talking to state governments for land,” he said adding, the branch would help shift the load on AIIMS.
Asked about the recent death of children in clinical trials at AIIMS, he said an inquiry into the incident has revealed the deaths were not due to negligence by doctors.
The children were in critical stage and even if the drugs were not given, there were very slim chances of their survival, he said adding, the clinical trial followed the stringent laid down procedure that includes taking the consent of parents or relatives before administering the drugs.
“All procedures (in AIIMS) were followed,” he said. In almost all government hospitals various committees exist for audit of causes of death and addressing grievances of patients, doctors and employees.
The government, he said, was upgrading 13 hospitals in the country at a cost of Rs 100-120 crore each to improve healthcare facilities.
Ramadoss said no incident of assault on doctors on account of death of patients due to negligence has been reported in Safdarjung Hospital, Dr RML Hospital, Lady Hardinge Medical College and associated hospitals in New Delhi and Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry.
