New Super Specialty Hospital all set for Delhi

New Delhi: Health Minister Dr. A.K. Walia today informed that few specialties in the Delhi Government’s 650 bedded Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital at Tahir Pur near Dilshad Garden in East Delhi will start functioning within a period of about two months. It will be the largest super-specialty hospital in Delhi with 16 number of Operation Theatres, 80 Private Wards and 150 Single Room Hostel for Resident Medical Officers, he added. The hospital will have state-of-art imaging equipments such PET CT, SPE CT along with high-end MRI and CT Scan. It will have ultra-modern laboratory facilities as well as state-of-art blood bank. The hospital will very strongly focus on effective and efficient processes and service quality, he added.
The Health Minister directed the officials of the Health Department and PWD to make the hospital fully functional at the earliest. The directions were given during the extensive inspection of the Hospital today along with senior officers of the Health Department, PWD, Director and other senior doctors of the hospital. He said that in order to expedite the development works, procurement of sophisticated medical equipments and facilities etc., he himself will visit the hospital at regular intervals to monitor the progress.
Dr. Walia informed that the unique feature (USP) of the hospital will be critical care as more than 20% beds are being reserved for critically ill patients. He said that the present hospitals in Delhi providing critical care are already overloaded and the new hospital will provide much needed relief to the critically ill patients and their families.