Union Budget: As AIIMS gets hike of Rs 677 crore, infra & new equipment in focus

The fund allocation for AIIMS Delhi, which was Rs 4,523 crore successful the past fiscal, has been hiked to Rs 5,200 crore an summation of astir 15%.

According to officials, funds to the tune of Rs 650 crore were sought for procuring instrumentality for which the allocation was made. The remainder of the funds volition beryllium utilised for salaries, hikes, dearness allowances, and purchasing consumables similar drugs, petrol, medicines, and outgo to outsourced staff, and sanitation workers.

“The magnitude has been accrued chiefly for augmenting the institute with state-of-the-art instrumentality and replacement of aging superior instrumentality and for the infrastructure and instrumentality of the newly-constructed blocks and the minimum wage summation successful the salaries,” said Dr Reema Dada.

She said the expenditure is estimated connected consumables for 5 caller blocks similar the caller RAK OPD, parent and kid block, surgical block, and geriatric caller backstage ward which person go functional. The estimation was projected owed to accrued request for machinery and instrumentality successful caller blocks and consultancy and preparatory enactment nether the maestro plan.

The Safdarjung Hospital and associated VMMC excessively saw an summation from Rs 1,874 crore allocated successful the 2024-2025 fiscal twelvemonth to Rs 2,179 crore successful the 2025-2026 Union Budget.

Meanwhile, the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and associated aesculapian college, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences, saw a diminution from Rs 1,610 crore to 1,458 crore.