Place · apex medical institute · India
AIIMS, New Delhi
Also known as AIIMS Delhi
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, established by Act of Parliament in 1956 on the model of Johns Hopkins — a teaching hospital, medical college and research institute under one autonomous governance. The brainchild of Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, India's first Health Minister, with early funding from New Zealand under the Colombo Plan. The autonomy clause (section 23 of the AIIMS Act) places it directly under Parliament and is the reason successive governments have found it difficult to use the hospital for routine administrative purposes.
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- Republic and Living Practice
- Function
- Learning & scholarship
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 28.567, 77.210
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- Peer institutionM. S. Swaminathan
Both AIIMS and the Indian Agricultural Research Institute formed the Delhi apex of the Nehruvian institutional build-out; Swaminathan directed IARI 1966-72.
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