New Delhi:

Amid an enormous row, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi in the present day reversed its determination to close non-critical providers until 2.30 pm tomorrow for the grand consecration occasion at Ayodhya Ram Temple.

This comes a day after the premier healthcare facility introduced a half-day break for workers in non-critical providers. Whereas the official be aware didn’t particularly point out if Out Affected person Division (OPD) providers can be obtainable, it was feared that outside sufferers wouldn’t be capable of seek the advice of specialists through the break.

A memorandum issued by Rajesh Kumar, AIIMS-Delhi’s administrative officer, yesterday had referred to the central authorities’s announcement of a half-day for presidency workers tomorrow. “It’s notified for data of all the workers that the Institute will stay half day closed until 14.30 hrs on 22.01.2024,” the memorandum mentioned. It, nevertheless, added that “all essential medical providers” shall stay useful.

The notification sparked an enormous outcry, with many declaring that sufferers await weeks, and typically, months to get an appointment on the premier healthcare facility. To close OPD providers instantly would severely inconvenience them, particularly those that had travelled from exterior Delhi within the hope of excellent, inexpensive healthcare on the state-run facility.

This morning, AIIMS-Delhi issued a contemporary notification, stating that the OPD “shall stay open to take care of sufferers with appointment in an effort to forestall any inconvenience to them and to facilitate affected person care”.

Safdarjung Hospital, one other key healthcare facility within the nationwide capital, has mentioned OPD registration will happen between 8 am and 10 am and all registered sufferers shall be attended to. The hospital will run pharmacy providers until midday however elective surgical procedures will not happen.

Earlier, Opposition leaders had strongly slammed the AIIMS announcement of a half-day break for the Ayodhya occasion. Rajya Sabha MP and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) chief Priyanka Chaturvedi had hit out on the transfer with a sarcastic put up on X. “Hiya people, Please do not go right into a medical emergency on twenty second, and in the event you do schedule it for put up 2pm since AIIMS Delhi is taking day without work to welcome Maryada Purushottam Ram,” she had posted.

“PS: Nevertheless, surprise if Lord Ram would agree that well being providers are disrupted to welcome him. Hey Ram, Hey Ram!,” she added.

Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale, too, criticised the transfer yesterday. “India’s largest Authorities Hospital AIIMS Delhi will stay closed until 2:30 pm on Monday. There are actually individuals sleeping exterior within the chilly at AIIMS gates ready for an appointment. The poor and dying can wait as a result of precedence is given to Modi’s desperation for cameras and PR,” Mr Gokhale posted on X.

The centre has introduced a half-day go away for presidency workers tomorrow in order that they’ll watch dwell telecast of the pran pratishta ceremony in Ayodhya, last-minute preparations for that are underway.

A number of states have introduced half or full day go away for presidency workplaces and academic establishments tomorrow.