Arrangments are underway for the first MBBS batch of AIIMS Kashmir at Awantipora in south Kashmir.
The government has made it clear that it is intending to start the first batch of MBBS in 2021 at the proposed site for a makeshift campus.
“For starting the first batch of MBBS in 2021, makeshift arrangements are being made,” reads an official document.
It further states that so far the physical progress of the project is just 3 percent.
“Work on the main building allotted on November 2020, physical progress is 3 percent. 86 percent boundary wall completed, 187.77 acres of land made available,” it reads.
A senior health department official informed that the first batch of 50 students for MBBS at AIIMS Jammu was taken earlier this year, for AIIMS Kashmir, the UT Government is looking at August 2021 for admissions.
The AIIMS, according to official information, is supposed to have a 750-bed hospital and would cater to around 1500 OPD cases on a daily basis.