No infrastructure for practicals for Bibinagar medicos in Telangana | Hyderabad News

HYDERABAD: The state government has made special arrangements for AIIMS, Bibinagar, students to conduct their practicals at Bhuvanagiri district hospital in the absence of basic facilities on the campus. Three years after the Bibinagar campus was established, the institute continues to wallow in apathy, health minister Harish Rao said on Friday.
“The hospital has no in-patients, no surgeries are performed and almost no outpatients. How are students going to learn in this setup? Keeping in view the future of students, we opened the Bhuvanagiri District Hospital to the students,” said the minister.

While the AIIMS-Bibinagar project was approved in 2017, the institute was meant to be fully operational by 2018, but seven years down the line, the institute remains bereft of infrastructure.
The state government had voiced its concern and questioned the permission granted to AIIMS-Bibinagar to run MBBS courses, when it did not have adequate faculty or operation theatres.
The Bibinagar campus on 223 acre houses a partially constructed hospital building. While main blocks have been completed, a key reason for low daily footfalls (less than 100 outpatients) is its distance from the city and few facilities.
“Most faculty members are engaged in research, but when it comes to practicals, they are handicapped by facilities. Given the situation, patients too do not exhibit confidence in their treatment,” said a senior official from the state health department.
The minister had previously said, despite the state giving 223 acres of land and set up buildings of 200 crore to AIIMS, the institute has been of no use to the people of Telangana.