Ashish Ranjan
AIMS delhi to take over two Govt hospitals: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will take over two Govt hospitals, the Indira Gandhi Hospital run by the Delhi government and the Charak Palika Hospital run by the New Delhi Municipal Council, as of the beginning of next month in an effort to address the issue of bed shortages at the top institution.
According to officials with knowledge of the situation, the goal of the move is to make the best use of the open beds in other government institutions so that seriously ill but stable patients from AIIMS, which is suffering from a severe bed shortage, could be sent there for care.
The hospital sees 866 emergency patients per day on average, according to internal AIIMS statistics. However, the daily admission rate to AIIMS is only 50 (5.7%).
“While AIIMS is in this position, it is noted that a number of government hospitals have vacant beds. Many of these patients from AIIMS could be admitted to these hospitals to help with the disparity in resources, according to a top AIIMS official who spoke on the record.
Indicator Gandhi Hospital and Charak Palika Hospital will be managed by AIIMS, according to the official, who will also provide crucial infrastructure. In the event of a bed shortage, non-critical patients from AIIMS will also have the choice of being transferred to these auxiliary facilities, the official said.
“To serve the local people in various localities of Delhi, other government hospitals and healthcare facilities will be gradually enlisted and developed as “partner institutions” of AIIMS. The goal is to build super specialty hospitals in various parts of the Capital so that the load on AIIMS can be lessened and at the same time, people can access healthcare close to where they live that is on par with what they would have received at AIIMS, according to the official.
Dr. M. Sriniwas, director of AIIMS, met with the administrators of 20 government hospitals in October 2022 to explore the potential for a shared referral system to reduce hospital crowding and enhance patient care. Among the hospitals that attended the conference were Safdarjung Hospital, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Lady Hardinge Medical College, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, Indira Gandhi Hospital, and Lok Nayak Hospital.
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Lt. Gov. VK Saxena presided over a meeting on Friday to develop a formal system for patient referrals between AIIMS and other government hospitals in Delhi after preliminary rounds of debate. LG Saxena gave the state health department instructions at the meeting to conduct a gap analysis of available beds in all of its main hospitals within a week.
