New Delhi: Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Mansukh Mandaviya and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) president presided over an event to mark the 66th Foundation Day of AIIMS, New Delhi in the presence of Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar.
This day marks the beginning of undergraduate teaching at AIIMS and it was on this date that the first batch of MBBS classes was held in 1956.
Congratulating the institute, the Union Health Minister alerted the community to the fact that success increases the expectations and responsibility of the achiever. “AIIMS New Delhi is a lighthouse to all the 22 new AIIMS spread across India. The students and teachers from here can help these institutes through their rich experience to replicate the success of this AIIMS throughout India,” Mandaviya was quoted as saying in a PIB release.
At the function, Shri Mandaviya and Dr Pawar gave away 33 awards and medals to faculty members and graduating students. Shri Mandaviya recounted an event in his early life when he was felicitated for writing an essay on Indira Gandhi which encouraged him to undertake a further effort in the direction and gradually shaping him into what he is today.
The Union Health Minister also digitally inaugurated a high throughput lab in the RAK building that can conduct 50 laboratory diagnostic tests and present results in 2-3 hours. Along with the Minister of State, he inaugurated and an exhibition themed “Digital Health and Medical Education”. All the departments displayed exhibits on different topics related to the theme.
AIIMS Director, Professor Randeep Guleria, Jt. Secretary (Health Ministry) Vishal Chauhan and Deputy Director, AIIMS, Dr Anita Saxena and many others were also present at the event.
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