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

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, India. The hospital was founded, with 54 beds, in 1932 by the

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for their own government staff. In 1954, in the newly independent

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, control of the hospital was transferred to the Central Government's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. It was renamed in 1970s after Dr.

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, the most important proponent of

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in India. The hospital is spread over , with of land set aside for its Nurse's Hostel. It is a

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hospitals because of its well-positioned location, a seventy-one bed

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for Central Government Health Scheme beneficiaries, and extensive subspecialty care. The hospital also has emergency services and has current plans for the construction of a 16-Storey Doctor's Hostel and a new MBBS building on its free land. 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 started MBBS course from 2019 session with 100 seats under the aegis of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences. The Hospital also has plans to increase the number of beds to about 3000 exceeding that of

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{{Authority control Hospitals in Delhi Memorials to Ram Manohar Lohia 1932 establishments in India Hospitals established in 1932

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