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I,
on behalf of the institute and on my own behalf would
like to extend a hearty welcome once again to all the
dignitaries, invitees and everyone present here and
thank them for kindly spending their valuable quality
time with us and join in the 41st Foundation
Day celebrations of RIMS, Imphal and thus encouraging
all of us at RIMS, Imphal. I must say that the Regional
Institute of Medical Sciences is greatly honoured to
have the Respected Chief Guest, Hon’ble President and
honoured guests amidst us on this auspicious day.
Ladies and gentlemen, RIMS was established 40 years ago
on the 14th Sept 1972, as the Regional
Medical College, Imphal. I am proud to be a product of
this institute from its first batch. The institute came
into existence owing to the vision, determination and
tireless efforts of the then government and
intellectuals. It has been nurtured by the great lineage
of the heads of this institute and learned doctors,
teachers and other staff over the last 40 years. RIMS,
Imphal is now very well known all over the country and
even outside owing to the large number of basic and
specialist doctors produced by this institute and
serving as the backbone of medical facilities all over
the entire north-east and holding a large number of key
positions in different medical institutes, hospitals,
research bodies in the country and abroad.
The institute was managed by a society till August
1976 when it was handed over to the Ministry of Home. It
was then transferred to the NEC by a decision of the
Government of India. When the Ministry of DoNER was
formed and NEC was allotted to it, RIMS came under the
Ministry of DoNER in September 2001. RIMS along with the
RIMS hospital was again transferred from the Ministry of
DoNER to the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare on the
1st April 2007 based on an MOU made amongst
NEC, DoNER and Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
RIMS has grown by leaps and bounds over the last
few years. It now has nearly 2000 employees with an
enhanced annual outlay which is fully funded by the
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of
India. RIMS is still an autonomous institute but has
lost its regional character with the inclusion of 15%
AIQ in the 100 annual admissions in the MBBS course, 50%
AIQ in the 147 annual admissions in the postgraduate
MD/MS courses in 23 disciplines. Superspecialty courses
in Urology and Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery on All
India Open basis has been running since 2010.
Last year the long pending 1st year
examination of B.Sc. course of the College of Nursing
which was started in 2009 was conducted and the 2nd
yr university exam is being conducted next month with
the grant of affiliation by the Manipur University. The
third batch of students for B.Sc. Nursing Course has
been admitted. Appointment of full strength of faculty
for the nursing college is almost complete.
The Dental College has been officially started
from the 28th August 2012 with the permission
granted by the Dental Education Section of the Ministry
of Health & Family Welfare based on the inspection
report of the Dental Council of India. Prior to this
appointment of teaching and other staff required for
starting BDS course has been made and the necessary
infrastructure provided and equipments have been
procured. The admission process of the 1st
batch of BDS course is now almost complete.
A large number of staff nurses and nursing sisters
who have been stagnating for a long time have been
promoted to nursing sisters and higher posts recently.
The flurry of activities and the improvement of
performance which follow such long pending promotion are
evident.
Proposal for creation of some posts of Professors
in departments running superspecialty courses have been
approved and further proposals for creation of faculty
posts in other superspecialty departments for teaching
as well as patient care services are well under way. We
made tangible changes in the administration in terms of
improved work ethics of the employees, increased
productivity, easier supervision and streamlining of
the workflow by introduction of Biometric attendance
recording system, and efficient File Tracker programme,
and improved security with Closed Circuit TV
surveillance system.
The Ministry has listened to our requests to extend the
benefits, both financial and promotional, of central
service to RIMS employees and these benefits are being
implemented in RIMS, Imphal. Proposals to bring our
salary structure at par with other institutes under the
Ministry like NEIGRIHMS and to upgrade RIMS to the
status of AIIMS have been made. RIMS fervently hope that
DGHS will consider our request favourably and the
Hon’ble Union Minister of Health will be kind enough to
grant us these facilities in view of the fact that RIMS
is at par or even better than other institutes in terms
of imparting education, production of well qualified
doctors and rendering excellent patient care services.
Hospital and patient statistics:
Last year, 2,89,442 patients attended OPD, 1,065,735
patients were treated in Casualty, 35,547 were admitted
in wards, 5,816 major operations were performed and
3,574 minor operations were conducted. Average length of
stay in the wards was 7 days and Bed Occupancy rate was
around 70%.
Many
deficiencies of the hospital in different aspects of
patient care have been made up. New installations
include: ERCP, Holmium YAG Laser, Dornier Sigma
Lithotripter, Cold Rooms, Component separators, Cell
Counters, Elisa Readers, High end Ultrasound machines
for the Radiodiagnosis, Medicine, Anatomy, PMR and
Emergency departments, Lap set for PPP, OT tables, Force
Triad for Surgery, Sterilizer and Shredder (for waste
disposal), Cytogenetics Lab equipment, Neurocom Balance
Master, Real Time PCR (DBT funded), ECT machine, etc.
The
advanced hospital information management system will be
fully functional within six months with the embracing of
cloud-computing, installation of two broadband fibre-optics
lines of 4 Mbps and 100 Mbps and a firm tripartite MOU
made between RIMS, CDAC and MANITRON for handing over a
fully functional system without further cost to RIMS.
A large number of faculty members of the institute have
been taking up various research projects and
infrastructure building projects funded by various
agencies like DBT, ICMR, WHO etc. The total number of
new projects is 19.
A total of 38 conferences, seminars, workshops, CME and
training programmes were organised at RIMS, Imphal in
the last 1 year. A total number of 117 research papers
have been published by the different departments of
RIMS, Imphal during the year. The Medical Society of
RIMS has continued to upkeep its commendable performance
by organising the 2nd MESOCON and arranging
to publish the JMS through Wolters Kluer, MedKnow in a
much improved format with facilities for online
submission and wider indexing.
We have 523 undergraduate MBBS students on roll. A
cumulative total of 2696 doctors have been produced so
far. 441 postgraduate students are on roll and 913
specialist doctors have been produced. A total of 26 M.
Phil in Clinical Psychology have been produced.
In appreciation of the achievements of the
academic performances of students and to encourage them
in their academic pursuits certificates, gold medals and
cash awards are instituted by the institute as well as
by some generous donors. There are 40 institutional
awards, 7 gold medals and 18 cash awards. This year
three more prizes will be awarded to the meritorious
B.Sc. Nursing students also.
A landmark achievement that we can all be happy
about is the starting of construction in March 2012 of a
multi-storey modern OPD building, 5 hostels and many
other expansions with the approval of the Ministry and
executed by HSCC, Noida. This should enable us to deal
with the increased number of PG students, Nursing and
Dental students and provide the much deserved proper
accommodation to all categories of students.
The instructions to increase intake of MBBS
students to 154 from the existing 100 has been discussed
at different levels and likely to come through shortly.
But the ministry has listened to our request to provide
necessary infrastructure first before admitting the
additional number to accommodate the mandatory 27%
reservation for OBC.
Ladies and Gentlemen, RIMS is moving in the right
direction and it is moving fast. We, the staff of this
institute however need to remember that we all have a
responsibility, a great responsibility towards the
students and the patients. Students of Medical, Dental
and Nursing streams have flocked here from all over the
country with great expectations of good medical, dental
& nursing education. Patients have come from all over
the state and the neighbouring states expecting
diagnosis and treatment of a high standard, and not only
to get cured but also to get cared for and concerned
about. Let us all try to live upto their expectations
and let RIMS remain a medical centre of excellence and
achieve even higher standards
I must, at the end, congratulate our prized
possessions – all the students who have excelled and are
being awarded on this foundation day and wish all the
students who have graduated and those who have completed
their Masters good luck and all the best in their future
career.
Once again I thank all the dignitaries, honoured
guest, invitees, media persons, staff, students, ladies
and gentlemen for your kind patient listening to the
report on the achievements of RIMS. Your presence has
made this function a grand success and we are honoured.
Long Live RIMS, Imphal. Jai Hind
Imphal, 14 Sept 2012
Prof.S.Sekharjit Singh
Director,
Regional Institute of Medical Sciences
Imphal. |
