New AIIMS Cross 6 Crore OPD Visits Under PMSSY

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare reported on 10 November 2026 that the new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences set up under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) have together handled more than 6 crore outpatient consultations in the five years since 2021-22, counted up to 31 October 2026.

How wide the network is

Of the 22 new AIIMS cleared in different phases of PMSSY, 18 are fully functional today. Each of these institutes runs outpatient and inpatient care, emergency and trauma services and diagnostics, and also works as a centre of medical teaching and research. The ministry says the network was expanded to correct the uneven spread of affordable tertiary care across the country, so that a patient does not have to travel to a metro city for specialised treatment.

Year by year, the queue grows

The rise is almost threefold between the first and the fifth year of the count. In the current year, 2026-27, the new AIIMS had already seen 97.41 lakh outpatients by October 2026. Adding the years together gives roughly 6.01 crore consultations, the figure that the ministry put out as the milestone.

Teaching and research alongside treatment

• The new institutes have widened undergraduate, postgraduate and nursing education.
• They have added specialised clinical facilities and advanced medical services.
• Services at each campus span OPD, inpatient wards, emergency and trauma care, diagnostics, education and research.
• The expansion is meant to strengthen India’s medical research base along with patient care.

For an aspirant, the scheme name is the key fact: PMSSY is the umbrella programme under which both new AIIMS and the upgradation of existing government medical colleges are taken up. The OPD count released now is a measure of use rather than of capacity, and the ministry presented the growing footfall as evidence that people in states which had no such institute earlier are now reaching specialist doctors closer to home.