Patients Caught in Chaos: Poor Coordination Between IGMC and AIMSS
A wave of frustration is sweeping across patients and their families as the lack of coordination between Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) and the Atal Institute of Medical Super Specialities (AIMSS), Chamyana, is making access to healthcare an exhausting ordeal.
What was meant to decentralize services and ease the burden on IGMC has instead created a logistical nightmare. Although the Himachal High Court permitted six super speciality departments—Neurology, Endocrinology, Urology, Gastroenterology, Nephrology, and Plastic Surgery—to operate from AIMSS, the absence of proper integration and infrastructure has left patients in a frustrating loop.
Patients now find themselves running back and forth: registering at IGMC, traveling nearly 5 kilometers to AIMSS for tests, and then heading back to IGMC for consultations. The road between the two facilities is often congested, turning what should be a streamlined process into an all-day affair that drains both time and energy.
A patient, who recently experienced this ordeal firsthand, shared his frustration: “I had to go to IGMC for registration, travel to Chamyana for diagnostics, and then come back again to show the reports. It took me the entire day. It’s physically exhausting and mentally draining.”
For hundreds of patients every day, what should be a journey toward healing feels more like a bureaucratic obstacle course—with no relief in sight.
