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5 unusual facts about AIIMS


AIIMS, New Delhi

AIIMS was inaugurated in 1956, and was built with a grant from the Government of New Zealand under the Colombo Plan.

Professor Samiran Nundy, Padma Shri, former Head of Dept. of Gastrointestinal Surgery, founder of The National Medical Journal of India

AIIMS publishes The National Medical Journal of India, among India's most prestigious clinical journals.

Anil Aggrawal, Forensic pathologist, and editor of Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

Yusuf Sarai

It lies on the Sri Aurobindo Marg close to AIIMS, New Delhi, and accommodates both residential as well as market places.


2006 dengue outbreak in India

Two grandsons (Rohan and Madhav) and son-in-law (Vijay Tankha) of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were admitted to the private ward of AIIMS for suspected dengue fever.

2006 Indian anti-reservation protests

The government proposed to reserve 27% of seats in the premier educational institutions of India like All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Other Medical Colleges, Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and other central institutions of higher education for the OBCs in order to help them gain higher levels of representation in these institutions.

Abu Dhabi Indian School

Its alumni have gone on to join some of the top colleges in India like the Indian Institutes of Technology, National Institutes of Technology, Anna University, Delhi Technological University, AIIMS, BIT Mesra, Loyola College, Chennai, Christ University, etc. and abroad like NUS, Nanyang Technological University, Georgia Tech, UCLA, Caltech, Cornell, Purdue University, etc.

Arbinder Singal

Dr. Singal completed his medical graduation from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi and subsequently his residency in surgery and super-specialisation in urology from AIIMS.

Madhavrao Scindia

All eight on board died in tragic crash: his personal secretary Rupinder Singh, journalists Sanjeev Sinha (The Indian Express), Anju Sharma (The Hindustan Times), Gopal Bisht, Ranjan Jha (Aaj Tak), pilot Ray Gautam and co-pilot Ritu.The autopsies were conducted and other legal formalities completed at AIIMS New Delhi by Professor T D Dogra.

Sri Aurobindo Marg

The stations of Delhi Metro, Jor Bagh, INA, AIIMS and Green Park (Yellow Line) lie on this road.

V. Mohan Reddy

A graduate from Kakatiya Medical College in Warangal, India, with a masters from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, he is the chief of pediatric cardiac surgery and specializes in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery.


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