‘Full-fledged OP Dept. services at AIIMS Madurai will begin on Jan. 1, 2027’

The Central government, in a status report submitted on Thursday, told the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court that a full-fledged outpatient department (OPD) services at the OPD Block of AIIMS Madurai’s permanent campus would begin on January 1, 2027.

A Division Bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice C.V. Karthikeyan was told by the Centre that necessary arrangements to start the OPD services were being taken up.

The status report said on completion of the hostels and dining blocks on the AIIMS Madurai campus, shifting of all the five batches (2021 to 2025) of MBBS students from the temporary campus in Government Ramanathapuram Medical College and Hospital to the AIIMS Madurai campus was completed on August 31 in a phased manner.