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AIIMS strives hard to make world class clinical care available to millions of underprivileged citizens of India and neighboring countries. Its corridors are thronged by patients, most of them too poor to afford quality treatment elsewhere. They come here with high hopes because of the reputation which AIIMS as built up. AIIMS is at present, not a single hospital but a conglomerate of facilities .It has over 1500 spread over the main hospital, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic sciences, Cardiothoracic Centre, Neurosciences Centre, Institute Rotary Centre Hospital and De-addiction Centre. This complex of facilities caters to about 1.5 million outpatients and 80,000 inpatients every year .The number of surgical operations performed at AIIMS last year was over 100,000.
Specialty Centers at AIIMS:
Cardio-Thoracic Sciences Centre
Centre for Dental Education and Research
Dr. R. P. Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences
Dr. B.R.A Institute-Rotary Cancer Hospital
National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre
Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Center
CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE AND RESEARCH (CIMR)
NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE (Jhajjar Campus)
Treatments Available at Dr. B.R.A Institute-Rotary Cancer Hospital:
Brachytherapy,
Stereotactic radiotherapy
Intensity modulated radiotherapy
Vaccum assisted advanced mammography Unit
Prostate cancer diagnosis at an early stage with help of tranrectal sextant biopsy.
Radio frequency ablation of liver cancer has also been initiated.
Hematopoietic stem cell bone marrow transplant programme
Stem cell transplant programme to treat myocardial ischemia.
Research Programs:
FISH and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) to prognosticate cancer patients.
Liberation of hematopoietic cytokines from fetal liver, with the potential to treat aplastic anemia.
This department has researched into our ancient wisdom also and has discovered that combination of yoga, pranayam, meditation and sudershan kriya-a rhythmic breating process induces positive changes in brain.
These processes enhance antioxidant defence and immune functions of body, and thus may prevent onset and/or progression of cancer.
Preventive oncology programme to bring awareness about cancer masses has been initiated, also screening programme to detect cancer early, over 10,000 people have been screened so far.
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