Geomaticians

AIIMS To Launch India-made Real-time Navigation System

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, to launch an internal navigation system to help patients and their caregivers with accurate location. To help it materialise as soon as possible, a five-member team has been formed by Dr M Srinivas, Director, AIIMS. The team, headed by Dr Vivek Tandon from the neurosurgery department, will prepare a report and submit it to the director within this week. “There are around 25,000 patients and caregivers visiting AIIMS. Since our campus is widespread and the patients find it difficult to navigate within AIIMS, it has not been decided to have a committee of five members for the procurement of an intra-hospital navigation system that would be user-friendly and accommodate a large number of people at any given time. This would help them with real-time directions.”