Willingdon_Hospital
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital
Hospital in Delhi, India
28.6257591°N 77.1984509°E Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (formerly known as Willingdon Hospital)is a Central government hospital in New Delhi, India. Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences is attached to this hospital which offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
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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 department 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. Along its well-positioned location, it has a 71 bedded 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.