Court seeks details from AIIMS-Patna

The Patna high court has asked the AIIMS–Patna administration and the Union health ministry to respond to a petition seeking round-the-clock emergency service, blood bank and other necessary infrastructure for treatment of patients at health facility.

A division bench of chief justice Rajendra Menon and justice Sudhir Singh sought the replies by the next date of hearing, which it fixed after two weeks.

Petitioner Devika Biswas had said that AIIMS-Patna, which was established in 2012, needed to be fully equipped to render meaningful service to the people of Bihar and nearby states.

Petitioner’s counsel Vikas Kumar Pankaj said without emergency services and blood bank, the hospital at present was like a “body without a soul.”