AIIMS Patna is an autonomous institute of national importance under the PMSSY, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. It started its operations on 25 September 2012 with a vision to provide tertiary healthcare, medical education & training in the state of Bihar. It is spread over a sprawling campus of 134 acres and houses a medical college with a yearly intake of 125 students, nursing college with yearly intake of 75 students, an 820 bedded hospital, a separate trauma & emergency wing, 11 well-furnished hostels for students and resident doctors, a post-office, and Phulwarisharif branch of Bank of India. The campus also has a helipad, a cricket ground, a football ground, a basketball court, a volleyball court,state of art Auditorium. Other than the undergraduate medical (MBBS) and nursing courses (BSc nursing), the institute also offers various post-graduate and post-doctoral courses. The first batch of MBBS students joined in 2012, BSc nursing in 2013, MD/MS in Jan 2019 and DM/MCh in July 2019. There are four lecture theatres in the medical college building, all equipped with central air conditioning, projectors, and state-of-the-art audio-visual tools. A separate e-classrooms has been created to facilitate distance learning and promote the inter-institutional and international exchange of knowledge. The institute has 23 specialty departments (Departments of; Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Pathology, Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Community and Family Medicine, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry, Dermatology, Orthopaedics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, ENT, Pediatrics, General Medicine, General Surgery, Radiodiagnosis, Radiotherapy, Anaesthesia, Ayush, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Blood bank & Transfusion medicine, and Trauma & Emergency). It also has 11 super-specialty departments (Departments of Burns & Plastic Surgery, Cardiology, Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery (CTVS), Gastroenterology, Neurology, Neonatology, Gastro-Intestinal Surgery, Neurosurgery, Paediatric Surgery, Surgical Oncology, and Urology).
The departments at AIIMS, Patna have a team of medical professionals fully dedicated to providing the best healthcare services to the patients. There are currently 800 beds at the hospital, as well as 28 functional modular operating theatres, advanced ICUs, round the clock availability of blood bank as well as an oxygen tank with a 30,000-kilogram capacity with centralised oxygen supply system. Distinguished facilities at AIIMS Patna include mobile CT Scan, 4K Laparoscopic system, AI-based Robotic endoscopic microscope, Plastic surgery with Laser, 3T MRI, Biplane DSA lab, OCT & FFR system, Endoscopic ultrasound, Heart-Lung machine, etc. The hospital at AIIMS, Patna took the lead role in fighting the COVID pandemic during the 1st and 2nd waves. It was designated as the center for excellence for COVID management. It treated more than 8000 moderate to severe COVID patients. It also served the people as a COVID dedicated hospital between July 2020 and Dec 2020. Additionally, as part of its outreach program, the Institute runs Chhattisa, a telemedicine program that has conducted over 100 health camps across India.
