Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, dedicated the AYUSH Building and Night Shelter of AIIMS Deoghar to the nation in the presence of Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare.

He also inaugurated the OPD Services of the institute in the new AYUSH Building.

Mandaviya noted that now people can get the best medical facilities in Deogarh. Along with the OPD services, the night shelter for people of faraway places to stay back and complete their treatment will help the entire State of Jharkhand. The institute will serve not only the 15 lakh residents of Deoghar but also the 3.19 crore people of Jharkhand.

Mandaviya said that the Centre has helped Jharkhand in every possible way in its fight against COVID-19. He invoked the concept of ‘Antyodaya’ of serving the last citizen in the society as propounded by Deendayal Upadhyaya as the guiding principle of the Union Health Ministry’s efforts to implement PMSSY.

In this context, he informed that six AIIMS of Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Raipur, Patna, Jodhpur and Rishikesh are now fully functional.

The OPD facilities in AIIMS, Deoghar are to include medicine and its allied specialities- general medicine, pulmonology (TB and respiratory diseases), psychiatry, dermatology (Skin), surgical and allied specialities- general surgery, orthopaedics, ENT, ophthalmology, paediatrics- vaccination of newborn and children, obstetrics and gynaecology, dentistry, pathology and microbiology, radiology etc.