All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Jammu is going to start its first academic session with 50 MBBS seats from the academic session 2020-21. This was announced by Union Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh. He took to twitter to announce the news. “Congratulations #Jammu! Centre has decided to start the first academic session of MBBS at #AIIMS, Vijaypur Jammu, from this year with 50 students. Appointment orders of the first Director of AIIMS Jammu are in the process of being issued,” he tweeted. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation of AIIMS Jammu in Vijaypur area of Samba district, on February 3, 2019. The construction work of the project is scheduled to be completed in 2023.
According to the Seat Matrix uploaded on website of Directorate General of Health Services, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the AIIMS Jammu has been allotted 50 seats out of which 13 will be reserved for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) including one for OBC Priority Household (PH) and five seats will be reserved for the Economically Weaker (EW) section. The General Category will have 22 seats and this would include one Priority Household seat. Also, seven seats have been reserved for the Scheduled Caste category and three for the Scheduled Tribes category. As per official sources, the hospital will have an Emergency Block, a Blood Bank and other important units. The South block will have quarters for faculty and other staff, besides housing a bio-medical waste plant, a water plant and other requirements. The hospital is scheduled to have departments of Surgery, Dermatology, Paediatrics, Medicine and General Units. The super-specialty division will have Cardiology, Neurology, Endocrinology, Neuro-Surgery and Nephrology units along with ICUs.