Hindu Rao Hospital

The present day modern Hindu Rao Hospital the largest hospital under the North Delhi Municipal Corporation is situated on the green, picturesque hilltop, located in the green belt of Delhi, which is a part and extension of the Arravali Mountain Range. Located in North Delhi, in the Civil Line area. To the north of the hospital lies the North Campus of Delhi University, to the East lies the Civil Lines, to the South is the Old Subzi Mandi and to the West lie Malka Ganj. The present-day modern Hindu Rao Hospital the largest hospital under the North Delhi Municipal Corporation is situated on the green, picturesque hilltop, located in the green belt of Delhi, which is a part and extension of the Aravalli Mountain Range. It has evolved to its present form from a 16 bedded small nursing home started in 1911 meant primarily for recuperation, in a private house constructed by Sir Edward Cole Brook who was the British Resident. In 1951 Delhi State Govt. converted this Nursing Home into a General hospital offering basic preventive and curative OPD services with 127 beds for in-patients. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi took over the hospital in 1958 and the Ministry of Health, Govt. of India, designated this hospital as a referral hospital in 1963. Hindu Rao Hospital is a modern care modern multi-specialty hospital catering to all sections of the society. The strategic location of the hospital, its size and the breadth of preventive, promotive and curative services and the easy and cost-effective accessibility to specialized services that it offers has succeeded in creating a large and regular clientele for the hospital. The hospital also caters to the medical and health needs of a number of referred patients from the dispensaries and colony hospitals managed by MCD, the nearby public hospitals managed by Delhi administration and many charitable and private institutions. The hospital attempts to fulfil all criteria of a “Health Promoting Hospital” and has a healthy initiative of community mobilization in addition to numerous employee welfare schemes. In 2012 the erstwhile Municipal Corporation of Delhi has been trifurcated into three separate corporations and Hindu Rao Hospital is now a part of North Delhi Municipal Corporation A new Medical College has been started in July / August 2013 in Hindu Rao Hospital and has been named as North Delhi Municipal Corporation Medical College. 50 students have been admitted this year as 1st-year MBBS candidates it has been affiliated to IP University.