All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur


All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur is a public medical school located in the Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India and one of the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences. It is one of the four "Phase-IV" All India Institutes of Medical Sciences announced in July 2014. It started operation of an outpatient department in February 2019 and started MBBS courses later that year, making it one of the six AIIMSs to become operational in 2019.

History

On July 2014, in the budget speech for 2014-15, the Minister of Finance Arun Jaitley announced a budget of for setting up four new AIIMS, in Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra and the Purvanchal region in Uttar Pradesh, the so-called "Phase-IV" institutes. Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of AIIMS Gorakhpur on 22 July 2016. An outpatient department started on 24 February 2019 and the first batch of 50 MBBS students started later that year, making it one of six AIIMSs to become operational in 2019. Surekha Kishor was appointed director in March 2020.