AIIMS Delhi increases timings for blood sample collection by over 5 hours

Now in AIIMS Delhi, patients can give blood samples from 8 am to 3.30 pm for testing, which was earlier only for two hours - from 8 am to 10 am. However, this extended time is only for patients coming from Monday to Friday.

New Delhi: There's good news for patients getting treatment from Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS). The AIIMS administration has increased the time to give blood samples for examination in the hospital by 5 and a half hours.

Now in AIIMS Delhi, patients can give blood samples from 8 am to 3.30 pm for testing, which was earlier only for two hours - from 8 am to 10 am. However, this extended time is only for Monday to Friday. On Saturdays, the sample of old OPD patients will be taken from 8 am to 10.30 am and the sample of new OPD patients will be taken from 8 am to 1 pm only.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had formed a committee headed by senior professors of AIIMS Delhi on September 3 to address the problems of patients in AIIMS Delhi.

The work of this committee was how to remove the problems of the patients coming to AIIMS Delhi for treatment. In such a situation, the increased time for conducting this investigation was one of the recommendations of this committee, which has been implemented by the hospital administration.