All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bibinagar (AIIMS Bibinagar) is a

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medical college and

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based in

Bibinagar Bibinagar is a Mandal in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district of the Indian state of Telangana. It is located in Bibinagar mandal of Bhongir revenue division. It is famous for All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bibinagar. Governance Bibinag ...

Yadadri Bhuvanagiri Yadadri Bhuvanagiri District, is a district in the Indian state of Telangana. The administrative headquarters is located at Bhuvanagiri Town. The district shares boundaries with Suryapet, Nalgonda, Jangaon, Siddipet, Medchal-Malkajgiri and Ranga ...

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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 h ...

(AIIMSs). It is one of the six AIIMSs that started operation in 2019.

History

The

(AIIMSs) are set up as part of the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) initiative, announced by the

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in 2003 and officially launched in March 2006, for the purpose of "correcting regional imbalances in the availability of affordable/reliable tertiary healthcare services", through setting up

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-like institutions and upgrading government medical colleges. As an outcome of the

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and the creation of Telangana in June 2014, the central government was mandated through the ''

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'' to create an AIIMS in Andhra Pradesh, which was to become

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in 2018. While the act does not mention an AIIMS in Telangana, the central government has assured the government of Telangana in 2014 that it will consider such an institute in Telangana as well. As early as July 2014, the government of Telangana has toyed with the idea of offering the yet-to-be-operational Bibinagar, YBG Dist campus of

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(NIMS) for establishing said AIIMS, a decision which was announced in January 2015. In September 2016 a contradictory announcement was made, stating that the AIIMS was to be established at

Bhongir Bhongir, officially known as, Bhuvanagiri is a district headquarters of the Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district and part of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Region of the Indian state of Telangana. Falling under Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authori ...

instead, due to higher availability of land. In February 2017, in the budget presentation for 2017–2018, the

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announced two AIIMSs, in

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and

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, but an institute in Telangana was not mentioned. A week later, Jaitley rectified this and officially announced at the parliament that an AIIMS will be set in Telangana as well. In April 2018, the central government has given an in-principle approval for the institute and the state government was asked to identify three of four possible locations for the AIIMS. The state government offered the Bibinagar campus, and following an inspection visit the location was approved in July, under conditions that an additional 49-acre of land will be acquired and that some infrastructure improvements are made. Finally, the official approval by the

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was made on 17 December 2018 at an estimated cost of . The institute was later denoted as "Phase-VII" of PMSSY. The land for the AIIMS was officially handed over to the central government in February 2019 and in May it was announced that classes will start in August, from the Bibinagar campus. The institute became operational with the first batch of 50

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students, which started in August 2019, one of the six AIIMSs to become operational in 2019. AIIMS Bhopal was set as the mentoring institution, and its director, Sarman Singh, also acting as director in charge. In December 2019 the mentoring institution changed to Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER). Vikas Bhatia was appointed as director in March 2020.

Campus and hospital

AIIMS occupies the former Bibinagar campus of Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS), which , is under construction. Outpatient services (OP) were expected to start in December 2019, with inpatient services in March 2020. However, due to the change of mentorship, OP opening was postponed to February 2020, a date which was also missed. The hospital is expected to be fully operational in September 2022.

References

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* {{All India Institutes of Medical Sciences Hospitals in Telangana Medical colleges in Telangana Educational institutions established in 2019 Hospitals established in 2019 2019 establishments in Telangana