A 100 bed Burns and Plastic Surgery Block will come up at the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. It will provide state of the art primary and tertiary care for burn patients. The proposal has been approved by the Union Health Ministry .
The ten storeyed building will come up at existing Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre, AIIMS premises, said AIIMS Director M C Mishra. Currently, only four hospitals, Safdarjung, RML, Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital (LNJP) and Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) in Delhi have the facilities to treat burn patients. AIIMS does not have the facility to treat emergency burn patients.