AIIMS plans extra hours for surgeries
A senior doctor said that increasing the surgery timings in a day would benefit the patients by reducing the waiting period.
New Delhi: The AIIMS administration is mulling to extend the operation timings by three hours at the premier hospital in accordance to a proposal, keeping in view the increasing load of patients in the waiting list. The proposed move has, however, been vehemently opposed by the anesthetists who, according to sources, are not okay with the timings.
Surgeons have proposed that surgeries be done at the hospital in two shifts —from 8 am to 2 pm and 2 pm to 8 pm. At present, surgeries are done from 8.30 am to 5 pm, which would be extended by three hours if the proposal sees the light of the day.
A senior doctor said that increasing the surgery timings in a day would benefit the patients by reducing the waiting period.
Sources said that as many as 1,94,015 surgeries were performed in the hospital In 2017-2018. It means on an average, 16,000 operations are conducted in a month and the daily number stands at 531.