OPD Services At Bhubaneswar AIIMS To Resume From June 28

Out-patient department (OPD) services at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar will resume from June 28, informed Sachidananda Mohanty, superintendent of the premier health-care institute.

"The OPD services of AIIMS were temporarily closed on April 26 due to COVID guidelines and restrictions.  Given the marginal decrease in COVID cases, it has been decided by the competent authority to restart our walk-in OPD services from the 28th of this month with a limit on calling patients in all the departments," read an statement issued by the hospital.

"Gradually, we will increase the number in the future. As such, patients' overall routine check-ups will be continued through the "AIIMS Bhubaneswar Swastya" App and Telemedicine. For any further information, you may contact our 24x7 Helpdesk," the statement stated.

Notably, the AIIMS Bhubaneswar had closed its walk-in OPD services temporarily from April 25 in view of the rapid rise in the number of COVID cases. However, services such as Day Care services, Radiotherapy, Dialysis, Trauma and emergency, emergency and life-saving surgery, telemedicine and teleconsultation services, IPD services, Pulmonary (vaccination RMRC), Anaesthesiology (PAC and Pain Clinic), Immunization for old registered patients (Wednesday & Friday) and Yellow Fever (Thursday) were operational.