Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, RIMS, a premier medical institute of the northeast region in Manipur, is all set to offer Doctoratus Medicinous (DM) Super Specialty course in Nephrology, spelling good news for all the kidney patients of the region and Manipur state.
Sunzu Bachaspatimayum
Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, RIMS, a premier medical institute of the northeast region in Manipur, is all set to offer Doctoratus Medicines (DM) Super Specialty course in Nephrology, spelling good news for all the kidney patients of the region and Manipur state.
“For the first time in RIMS, Imphal Super Specialty DM Course shall be starting from this academic session. The union ministry of health and family welfare, the government of India, has given its approval for RIMS to start the DM course in Nephrology, putting RIMS on the map of India where the brightest young doctors can pursue DM in Nephrology,” said A.
Santa Singh, the director of RIMS. The jubilant director said the opening of the course will benefit kidney disease patients from all northeastern states and the neighbouring countries like Myanmar.
While revealing that Manipur incidentally has the maximum number of kidney failure patients among the eight northeastern states of India, the RIMS director informed that the regional institute is proposing to start a kidney transplant programme very soon.
“RIMS has performed kidney biopsy on average of 40-50 cases per year and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) initiation cases on an average of 90-95 per year and hemodialysis on an average of 2367 session per year,” stated a release from the department of nephrology RIMS which started as a section under Medicine department in 2002 and later upgraded to full-fledged department in January 26, 2018.
Further, the department stated that it treats an average of 610 in-patients in a year while the corresponding out-patients’ data for a year is 2825.
RIMS is the oldest institute in northeast India, catering to the healthcare needs of the majority of people of the region.
Previously called the Regional Medical College, RMC, RIMS was established on 14th September 1972. It was subsequently transferred to the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare on 1st April 2007. It has 1176 hospital beds and ten departments offering MBBS, MS, DCP, M.Ch, M. Phil, B.Sc. Nursing, BDS, BASLP courses as well as interns programs, in a sprawling campus of over 300 acres of land.
Recently RIMS was awarded 28th out of 580 medical institutes in the national institutional ranking given by the ministry of human resource development. If taken from the northeast context,
RIMS is the top medical institute in the region.
