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All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur better known as AIIMS Gorakhpur is a
public
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medical university
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located in the
Gorakhpur
Gorakhpur is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, along the banks of the Rapti river in the Purvanchal region. It is situated 272 kilometers east of the state capital Lucknow. It is the administrative headquarters of Gorakhpur dist ...
,
Uttar Pradesh
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, India and one of the
All India Institutes of Medical Sciences
The All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is a group of autonomous government public medical universities of higher education under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare , Government of India. These institutes ha ...
. It is one of the four "Phase-IV" All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) announced in July 2014.
History
In July 2014,
in the budget speech for 2014–15, the
Minister of Finance
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Arun Jaitley
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announced a budget of for setting up four new AIIMS, in
Andhra Pradesh
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,
West Bengal
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, the
Vidarbha
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region of
Maharashtra
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and the
Purvanchal
Purvanchal () is a subregion of the Bhojpuri region of India which comprises eastern Uttar Pradesh. Purvanchal region gained independence from the Avadh and Mughal rule under Zamindar Balwant Singh, a Bhumihar zamindar from Benaras State.
I ...
region in
Uttar Pradesh
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,
[ the so-called "Phase-IV" institutes. Prime Minister ]Narendra Modi
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laid the foundation stone of AIIMS Gorakhpur on 22 July 2016. An outpatient department
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(OPD) started on 24 February 2019 and the first batch of 50 MBBS
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students started later that year, making it one of six AIIMSs to become operational in 2019. Surekha Kishor was appointed director in March 2020.
Academics
It started operation of an outpatient department
An outpatient department or outpatient clinic is the part of a hospital designed for the treatment of outpatients, people with health problems who visit the hospital for diagnosis or treatment, but do not at this time require a bed or to be admitte ...
(OPD) in February 2019 and started MBBS courses later that year, making it one of the six AIIMSs to become operational in 2019.
Controversy
The executive director of AIIMS Gorakhpur, Dr Surekha Kishore was alleged to have forced medical students to show her their private messages and files on their mobile phones. It was also alleged she directed guards of the institutes to confine students in their rooms.
See also
* AIIMS Raebareli
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raebareli (AIIMS Raebareli) is a medical research public university and hospital based in Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India. One of the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), It was establishe ...
References
External links
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Gorakhpur
Gorakhpur is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, along the banks of the Rapti river in the Purvanchal region. It is situated 272 kilometers east of the state capital Lucknow. It is the administrative headquarters of Gorakhpur dist ...
Hospitals in Uttar Pradesh
Medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh
Educational institutions established in 2019
Hospitals established in 2019
2019 establishments in Uttar Pradesh
Education in Gorakhpur