AIIMS Bibinagar launches community radio to take healthcare conversations beyond hospital walls

Around 3 p.m. at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)-Bibinagar, as outpatient departments begin to empty and the day’s clinical rush starts to fade, a different kind of consultation begins. And this one does not happen inside wards or clinics, but over the airwaves. Tune in to 89.6 FM, and doctors can be heard speaking not to a waiting room, but to an entire community.

AIIMS-Bibinagar has launched the country’s first AIIMS-run Community Radio Station (CRS), a platform aimed at transforming how public health information is shared and consumed. The community radio station began its trial run on Monday, with AIIMS-Bibinagar director Amita Agarwal inaugurating the facility.