The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Jammu could become the first hospital in the country to be guarded by an armed contingent of the CISF given its “sensitive” location close to the India-Pakistan international border, officials said.
The campus is located a few kilometres from the India-Pakistan International Border (IB). The 226.84-acre hospital and medical college is located in the Vijaypur area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district, along the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway-44. The hospital was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in February 2024. Incidentally, CISF personnel have been temporarily deployed at the R G Kar Hospital premises in Kolkata following a Supreme Court directive in August 2024 in the backdrop of the rape and murder of a doctor there.
The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) is expected to be deployed at the AIIMS-Jammu campus, making it the first hospital to be brought under the security cover of the central paramilitary force, the sources said.
