President of India Droupadi Murmu graced and addressed the convocation ceremony of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Nagpur in Maharashtra on 15 April 2026. During the ceremony, degrees and gold medals were conferred upon a total of 210 students from undergraduate, postgraduate and super-specialty programmes. In her address the President underlined that medicine is not merely a profession but a path of serving humanity with sensitivity and ethical responsibility. She praised AIIMS Nagpur for emerging as a leading centre for medical education, research and tertiary healthcare within only a few years of its establishment under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana. The President said that the present era is a time of rapid transformation in the healthcare sector, with unprecedented progress being made through new technologies including Artificial Intelligence, robotic surgery, telemedicine through eSanjeevani and digital health records under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission. She urged the medical fraternity to leverage these technological developments to bridge the disparity in healthcare facilities between rural and urban areas in India. She specifically cautioned graduating doctors that no level of technological progress, including artificial intelligence and digital healthcare, can replace a patient-centric approach rooted in empathy and ethics. The President also emphasised the importance of preventive healthcare, indigenous AYUSH systems and community outreach programmes in achieving the goal of a healthy and developed India by 2047. Maharashtra Governor Jishnu Dev Varma, Union Minister of State for AYUSH and Health and Family Welfare Prataprao Jadhav and AIIMS Nagpur leadership were among those present at the convocation.