All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Madurai

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All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Madurai
Type Public Medical School
Established2021;3 years ago (2021)
President Prashant Lavania
DirectorM. Hanumantha Rao
Students50 (per year)
Location
Madurai
,
Tamil Nadu
,
India

9°53′13″N77°59′58″E / 9.887054°N 77.999495°E / 9.887054; 77.999495
Campus Semi Urban
222 acres (90 ha)
LanguageTamil and English

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Madurai (AIIMS Madurai) is an AIIMS public medical university of higher education under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India that is located at Thoppur near Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. AIIMS Madurai was announced in 2015 and the institute was established in 2021.

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The yearly MBBS intake is 50 and selection is done through NEET(UG). [1]

History

The AIIMS was officially announced on 28 February 2015, in the budget speech for 2015–16, where the Minister of Finance Arun Jaitley announced five more AIIMS, in Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Assam and Tamil Nadu and an "AIIMS-like" institute in Bihar. [2] Tamil Nadu had proposed five sites to set up an AIIMS. Besides Thoppur, Sengipatti (Thanjavur), Pudukottai town, Chengalpattu (Kanchipuram) and Perundurai (Erode) were considered. [3] In 2018, the union cabinet gave an official approval for the location, on a 222-acre lot in the Thoppur, near Madurai. [3] [4] [5]

By January 2019, the boundary wall of AIIMS Madurai campus was completed. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation stone of AIIMS Madurai in January 2019. [6] The state government handed over the land to the Government of India in February 2020. [1] In March 2021, the funding agency, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), extended assistance. The loan agreement was signed in February 2022. [7] The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) informed Minister for Health and Family Welfare of Tamil Nadu Ma. Subramanian in February 2023 that the construction of AIIMS Madurai would begin by the end of 2024 and be completed by 2028. [8]

Healthcare

Medical facilities

The AIIMS Madurai will have 15-20 super specialty departments. [4]

Hospital

The hospital will have around 750 beds. As per the current operational AIIMS data, it is expected that the hospital will cater to around 1500 OPD patients per day and around 1000 IPD patients per month. [4]

Academics

Admission

Like all other AIIMS the institute select students for MBBS course through NEET(UG) annually.

Medical College

The institution runs a medical college within the campus. The medical college has 50 UG (MBBS) seats. As the construction of the campus is not completed, classes of the first batch were taken at the Ramanathapuram Medical College. The college started with 50 students in April 2022, from the academic session 2021–2022. [1] [9]

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