ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES BHOPAL
ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES BHOPAL All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhopal (AIIMS Bhopal) is one of the seven AIIMS apex healthcare institutes being established by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna (PMSSY). The AIIMS Bhopal logo signifies the light of erudition spreading all over, emanating from the abode of stupa of Sanchi. Sanchi, in Sanskrit literally means – ‘to measure’ and represents complete harmony between mind, body and soul. The two serpents – signify the two shades of human existence which physicians encounter – Life and Death, Health and Disease. The saying ‘शारिरमाध्यां खलू धर्मसाधनम्’ has been quoted from a dramatic poem called Kumarasambhavam by Mahakavi Kalidasa. It means a ‘Healthy body is the means of Fulfilment of Dharma that is duty’. The olive branch symbolises peaceful living.