Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (formerly known as Willingdon Hospital) is a hospital in

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, India, operated by the

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of the

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. Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences (formerly the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, New Delhi), which offers

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and

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courses, is attached to this hospital Established in 1932 by the

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as Willingdon Hospital, it was designed to serve their personnel and initially accommodated 54 beds. In 1954, following India's independence, control of the hospital was transferred to the Central Government's

. In the 1970s, the hospital was renamed after

Ram Manohar Lohia Ram Manohar Lohia ( 23 March 1910 – 12 October 1967) was an Indian political activist of the Indian independence movement and a socialist politician. As a nationalist, he worked actively to protest against colonialism, raising awareness of th ...

, a leading proponent of socialist ideology in India. The hospital spans 30 acres (12 hectares), including 4 acres (1.6 hectares) dedicated to a nurses' hostel. Strategically located, it features a 71-bed nursing home for beneficiaries of the

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and offers extensive subspecialty care. Annually, the hospital serves approximately 1.2 million outpatients, admits around 46,000 patients, and attends to about 150,000 emergency cases. With a capacity of 1,420 beds, it performs nearly 10,000 CT scans, 2,000 MRI scans, 200,000 X-rays, 2.8 million laboratory tests, 25,000 ultrasound scans, and conducts about 9,000 major and 40,000 minor surgeries each year. Additionally, the hospital operates dedicated daily OPDs exclusively for Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) beneficiaries. The hospital also plans to expand its capacity to approximately 3,000 beds, surpassing the capacity of

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Academic

The hospital began offering an

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course in 2019 with 100 seats and has been running MD/MS programs since 2009, under the aegis of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences (formerly known as the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research).

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