In a major decision to boost health services for citizens of Bihar, the state government has decided to provide free of cost treatment to the patients in state's premier medical institution Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS), Patna.

• All medical services including surgery, medical investigation and bed charges of general wards will not cost anything to the patients. 
• The people will, however, require paying only for the registration fee and beds in private and luxury wards.
• IGIMS, an autonomous medical institutions, currently charges for all medical interventions and starts treatment of critical patients only after deposit of advance like private hospitals, starting from Rs. 20,000 for ICU and medicine charges.