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

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medical institute and hospital based in

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under

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, 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 ...

(AIIMSs). On 26 May 2017, Prime Minister

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laid the foundation stone of the Institute. The institute was inaugurated on 14 April 2023 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The institute has an annual intake of 100 MBBS students. The academic activity for the first batch of 50 MBBS students started in January 2021.

Academics

The academic programme for the first batch of MBBS students was inaugurated on 12 January 2021 by the then Honorable Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr. Harsh Vardhan. The Institute became operational with 50

MBBS A Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (; MBBS, also abbreviated as BM BS, MB ChB, MB BCh, or MB BChir) is a medical degree granted by medical schools or universities in countries that adhere to the United Kingdom's higher education tradi ...

students, and is one of the four AIIMSs to become operational in academic year 2020-21. The Institute was initially functioning from a temporary campus at Narakasur Hilltop of Gauhati Medical College, with AIIMS Bhubaneswar mentoring it. The Institute has shifted to its permanent campus in March 2022. On 14 April 2023, Prime Minister

inaugurated AIIMS, Guwahati and three other medical colleges.

Patient Services

The Institute will have a 750-bedded hospital with more than 25 specialty and super-specialty departments. This is apart from the outpatient services and the diagnostic services. There will also be a separate facility for providing services under AYUSH.

References

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