Medical Social Welfare Unit(Main hospital)

It was in the year 1956, when the vision of comprehensive healthcare inclusive of preventive, promotive and curative came into existence with the establishment of AIIMS, New Delhi as an autonomous institution of national importance. To serve as a nucleus for nurturing excellence in all aspect of health care, Medical Social Welfare Services in AIIMS were initiated and the first Medical Social Worker was appointed in the hospital in 1960.

Since the advent of Medical Social Welfare Services, it has gained much needed support from Hospital Administration and its leadership. The services to the underprivileged and impoverished catered socio-economic challenges and psycho-social assessment through specific designed interventions by the Medical Social Work professionals. Henceforth, the professional development of Social Welfare Services never looked back and the post of MSW eventually developed into a cadre of Medical Social Service Officer (MSSO) increasing the strength of officers to 58 at present.

At present the Medical Social Welfare Unit, Main Hospital has 14 Medical Social Service Officers taking care of OPDs and Wards of 19 significant departments. The Medical Social Welfare Unit (main hospital) comes under the Medical Superintendent, Main Hospital (Dr. D. K. Sharma), the day-to-day activities are supervised by the Chief MSSO (B. R. Shekhar).

In addition to the Medical Social Welfare Unit, AIIMS has other Medical Social Services Officers placed in different departments and centers. They are working directly under the Chief/HOD of the concerned department.

Due to the professional efforts, sincerity & hard work of Medical Social Service Officers and the visionary support of the superior authorities, AIIMS has become the only institution in India with the biggest strength of Medical Social Workers in a Hospital setting.

The Medical Social Welfare Unit (main hospital) is operational from these offices