AIIMS Announces Free Emergency Cardiac Surgeries For General Patients Monday Nov 11,2013

All emergency cardiology procedures at AIIMS will now be performed free of cost for patients in general wards.

Emergency surgeries such as -

• angioplasty (surgical widening of clogged vessels in the heart using tubes called stents)
• balloon angioplasty (insertion of a surgical balloon to open obstructed vessels)
• opening of blocked heart valves and
• insertion of pacemakers (battery operated devices to improve heart rates) 

will now all become free, the hospital announced


Till now, for each of these procedures, emergency patients had to shell out any amount between Rs 30,000 and Rs 70,000 for consumables used in the surgeries

Dr V K Behl, head of cardiology department at AIIMS, said, "It was a policy we have been contemplating over for the last few years. We have observed that people who come to the emergency ward often cannot pay the money and we struggle to stabilise them while the finances are being arranged." 

About All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS)

The All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMSes) are a group of autonomous public medical colleges of higher education. 

AIIMS New Delhi, the fore-runner parent excellence institution, was established in 1956

AIIMS New Delhi is governed by the The All India Institute of Medical Sciences Act, 1956.

The AIIMS institutes are located in -

• AIIMS Delhi(1956)
• AIIMS Bhopal(2012)in Madhy Pradesh
• AIIMS Bhubaneswar (2012)in Odisha
• AIIMS Jodhpur (2012)in Rajasthan
• AIIMS Patna (2012)in Bihar
• AIIMS Raipur (2012)in Chhattisgarh
• AIIMS Rishikesh (2012)in Uttarakhand