Dr. Ram Manohar Hospital
Central Government
Geography
LocationBaba Kharak Singh Marg, New Delhi, Delhi, India
Organisation
Care systemCentral Government Hospital
TypeGeneral and Teaching Hospital of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Affiliated universityGuru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Services
Emergency department24 Hours Tertiary Care Emergency Services
Beds1420
History
Opened1932 (as Willingdon Hospital)
Links
Websitehttp://rmlh.nic.in/
ListsHospitals in India

28°37′33″N 77°11′54″E / 28.6257591°N 77.1984509°E / 28.6257591; 77.1984509 Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (formerly known as Willingdon Hospital) is a government hospital in New Delhi, India. Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences is attached to this hospital which offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

The hospital was founded, with 54 beds, in 1932 by the British Raj for their own government staff. In 1954, in the newly independent India, control of the hospital was transferred to the Central Government's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.[1] It was renamed in 1970s after Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, the most important proponent of socialist ideology in India.

The hospital is spread over 30 acres (12 ha), with 4 acres (1.6 ha) of land set aside for its Nurse's Hostel. It is a Central Government hospital because of its well-positioned location, a seventy-one bed Nursing Home for Central Government Health Scheme beneficiaries, and extensive subspecialty care. [1][2][3]

Annually, the hospital provides services to about 1.2 million patients as OPD cases, admits about 46,000 patients and attends about 150,000 emergency patients; it has 1420 beds. The hospital conducts about 10,000 CT scans, 2,000 MRI scans, 200,000 X-ray cases, 2.8 million laboratory tests, 25,000 ultrasound scans, and about 9,000 major and 40,000 minor operations per year. The hospital runs daily separate CGHS OPDs for CGHS beneficiaries.

The Hospital also has plans to increase the number of beds to about 3000 exceeding that of Safdarjung Hospital.

Academic

The hospital started MBBS course from 2019 session with 100 seats under the aegis of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital Home Page".
  2. "Hospital Services Listing". Website for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
  3. "Indian Government Press Release". Archived from the original on 25 March 2005. Retrieved 7 May 2007.
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