AIIMS gets new underground parking
7 May 2013 11:36 AM GMT
A three-level underground parking, the foundation stone for which was laid in October 2011 was inaugurated by the union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday. The new parking facility has a capacity to hold 400 cars.
Inaugurating the facility, Azad said, ‘The foundation stone of the project was laid on 1 October 2011. Construction work was completed within 9 months. But due to delay in getting clearances from various departments, the facility could only be formally opened on Monday.’
The parking facility has been constructed by the Hospital Services Consultancy Corporation Limited (HSCC) at a cost of Rs. 54 crores. Azad said the average number of vehicles entering the AIIMS campus daily is approximately ‘5,400 on working days and 3,200 on Sundays / holidays’.
To meet the huge parking need, in addition to the new facility, AIIMS authorities are working on a Master Plan, for an underground parking complex that would accommodate about 10,000 vehicles.
After the approval of Master Plan by the NDMC and other authorities, the proposal will be taken to the next logical step’.Azad said.
AIIMS is in the forefront of medical education, research and patient care in the country. During 2011-12 more than 26 lakh patients visited the OPDs and emergency departments of the hospital. ‘Over 1.7 lakh patients were admitted and more than 1.26 lakh surgeries were performed by the doctors and specialists at AIIMS,’ he said.
These figures speak volumes about the enormous load being handled by the AIIMS faculty, staff and authorities.
Azad hoped that with the start of 6 more new AIIMS in various parts of the country, the load on the Delhi facility can be reduced.
An AIIMS administration official said, ‘Final statutory approval by New Delhi Municipal Corporation was granted on 5 May this year.’ The multi-level parking would help in the decongestion of the AIIMS premises where, according to a recent traffic survey, approximately 14,000 vehicles, including 5,000 cars, enter everyday’.
Stating that provisions in the existing Master Plan have already been exploited to develop new facilities at the AIIMS, Azad emphasised on the need to rapidly develop a new Master Plan for the institute.
When asked about the six AIIMS-like institutes, Azad said MBBS courses have already been commenced in the institutes and the first phase of the treatment facilities would be operational by August’.
Inaugurating the facility, Azad said, ‘The foundation stone of the project was laid on 1 October 2011. Construction work was completed within 9 months. But due to delay in getting clearances from various departments, the facility could only be formally opened on Monday.’
The parking facility has been constructed by the Hospital Services Consultancy Corporation Limited (HSCC) at a cost of Rs. 54 crores. Azad said the average number of vehicles entering the AIIMS campus daily is approximately ‘5,400 on working days and 3,200 on Sundays / holidays’.
To meet the huge parking need, in addition to the new facility, AIIMS authorities are working on a Master Plan, for an underground parking complex that would accommodate about 10,000 vehicles.
After the approval of Master Plan by the NDMC and other authorities, the proposal will be taken to the next logical step’.Azad said.
AIIMS is in the forefront of medical education, research and patient care in the country. During 2011-12 more than 26 lakh patients visited the OPDs and emergency departments of the hospital. ‘Over 1.7 lakh patients were admitted and more than 1.26 lakh surgeries were performed by the doctors and specialists at AIIMS,’ he said.
These figures speak volumes about the enormous load being handled by the AIIMS faculty, staff and authorities.
Azad hoped that with the start of 6 more new AIIMS in various parts of the country, the load on the Delhi facility can be reduced.
An AIIMS administration official said, ‘Final statutory approval by New Delhi Municipal Corporation was granted on 5 May this year.’ The multi-level parking would help in the decongestion of the AIIMS premises where, according to a recent traffic survey, approximately 14,000 vehicles, including 5,000 cars, enter everyday’.
Stating that provisions in the existing Master Plan have already been exploited to develop new facilities at the AIIMS, Azad emphasised on the need to rapidly develop a new Master Plan for the institute.
When asked about the six AIIMS-like institutes, Azad said MBBS courses have already been commenced in the institutes and the first phase of the treatment facilities would be operational by August’.
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