After India gained independence, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister, made it his life’s goal to create a developing country with a focus on the Sciences. His dream was to create a scientific hub that could be an environment of expansion for medical research and education within the subcontinent and along the South East Asia region.
Thanks to the generous financial support of £1 million from the New Zealand Government under the Colombo Plan in 1952, the All-India Institute of Medical Science (AIMMS) was finally created in 1956 as an autonomous institution through an Act of Parliament.
AIIMS is currently an institution of national reputation dedicated to improving standards of education for Undergraduate and Post – graduate Medical teaching across all its branches in India, bringing together learning facilities for professionals related to healthcare activity. Education and research are conducted in 42 disciplines, and over 600 papers are published each year.