15 senior doctors left AIIMS Delhi from 2023-25 due to bureaucratic hurdles: Report

From 2023-2025, at least 15 senior faculty members, including HODs, left AIIMS Delhi, ThePrint reported. They told the portal bureaucratic hurdles, poor progression in careers, administrative work overload and leadership constraints drove their decisions. Dr Milind Padmakar Hote of cardiothoracic surgery department, who quit in 2024, said about 5% of patients on waiting list, including kids, died.