Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences

Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences or PGIMS Rohtak is a government medical institution in the city of Rohtak, Haryana, India. The institute offers various under graduate and post graduate courses in major specialties of medicine and surgery. It is spread across a 350-acre (140 ha) campus. It is incorporated in Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences.

Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak
Established1960
Parent institution
Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences
Vice-ChancellorDr. Anita
DeanDr. KS Lallar[1]
DirectorDr. Shamsher singh Lohchab
Location
Rohtak, Haryana
,
India

28.8802°N 76.6054°E / 28.8802; 76.6054
Websitewww.pgimsrohtak.ac.in

Pt. B.D.Sharma, PGIMS, Rohtak is about 240 km (150 mi) from Chandigarh and about 70 km (43 mi) from Delhi on Delhi-Hissar-Sirsa-Fazilka National Highway (NH-10). It is one of the major Institutions for Medical Education and Research and a tertiary care centre for provision of specialized health care services not only to the people of the State of Haryana, but also to those of nearby states of Punjab, Rajasthan, Delhi and western U.P.

History

The institute was started under the name of Medical College, Rohtak in 1960. For the first three years, the students were admitted to Government Medical College, Patiala which acted as a host Institution. In 1963, the students were shifted to Rohtak. In the subsequent years, multifaceted expansion measures have transformed the Institute into a fully developed center of Medical Education and research in all the major disciplines of Medicine.

After the establishment of Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences in 2008, it was incorporated in the university.[2]

Campus

The Institute Complex houses the following buildings:

  • Medical College
  • Library and Reading Hall
  • Sushruta Auditorium
  • Ranbir Singh OPD
  • Emergency Ward
  • Well Equipped Hospital of 2100 beds
  • Dhanwantari Apex Trauma Centre
  • Modular OT cum ICU Complex
  • Lala Shyamal Super-specialty Centre
  • Multi-slice whole body CT Scan building
  • De-addiction center
  • State Institute of Mental Health
  • Mother and Child Hospital
  • Dental College and Hospital
  • Pharmacy College
  • College of Nursing
  • College of Physiotherapy
  • Residential Area

The institute has a campus spread over an area of 350 acres (1.4 km2) of land.

Nearly 11,38,980 patients were provided consultation and treatment in the outpatient departments (OPD) during the year 2004–2005. Out of these, 68,000 patients were admitted as indoor patients. It witnessed a daily OPD throughput of nearly 14,000 patients in 2012 and is growing constantly. Nearly 1,50,000 surgeries were done in 2012. Its bed occupancy rate is more than 100%.

See also

References
  1. "Administration". www.pgimsrohtak.ac.in. Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  2. "Incorporated Colleges/Institutes". Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
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