All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur, better known as AIIMS Gorakhpur, is a public medical university located in the Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. It is one of the 20 operational AIIMS in India. It is one of the four "Phase-IV" All India Institutes of Medical Sciences announced in July 2014.
History
In 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.
Academics
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.
Controversy
The executive director of AIIMS Gorakhpur, Dr. Surekha Kishore, was alleged to have forced medical students to show her their private messages and files on their mobile phones. It was also alleged she directed guards of the institutes to confine students in their rooms. She was removed on 4 January, 2024, on financial irregularities and nepotism charges.
OPD
As of August 2025, the outpatient department at AIIMS Gorakhpur reported a daily patient attendance ranging between 4,000 and 5,000, reflecting a significant rise in healthcare utilization at the institute.