Safdarjung Hospital
Safdarjung Hospital is a 2900-bed multi-specialty hospital, the largest Central Government hospital in India by bed strength associated with Vardhman Mahavir Medical College. It is located in the heart of New Delhi on the Ring Road, right opposite the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Until the inception of All India Institute of Medical Science in 1956, Safdarjung Hospital was the only Tertiary care hospital in Delhi. In 1962, it became a centre of training and teaching of Post-graduate students of the University of Delhi. From 1973 to 1990, the hospital and its faculty was associated with University College of Medical Sciences. But with the establishment of Indraprastha University in 1998, the college and hospital were later associated with the Vardhman Mahavir Medical College.Academics
The courses offered by the institute are:
DNB
History
American troops came to India during the Second World War and landed at the nearby Safdarjung airport, the only airport in Delhi at that time and then known as Willingdon Airfield. There was no hospital in the area where this hospital is situated. Some barracks were rapidly constructed south of the airport to establish a medical centre for American troops fighting in this region. The hospital was well equipped, with x-ray machine, a laboratory and other facilities for various emergency procedures. After the Second World War was over, America handed over the hospital to the Indian government and it is now known as Safdarjung Hospital. Later a medical college was started there by Central Government Health Scheme of the Health Ministry.
AIIMS was started in 1956 but there was no medical college in old Delhi until 1959 when Maulana Azad Medical College was started at Delhi Gate.
