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Expansion
Rao Tularam Memorial Hospital in West Delhi will start getting ICU ward facility by the end of the year. The 100-bed hospital does not yet have ICU facility. If the patients admitted here require ICU, they are referred to other hospitals including Deendayal Upadhyay Hospital.
For the development of facilities in the hospital, a new building is being constructed, which is in the final stages. It is expected that from August the departments will be shifted to the new building here in a phased manner. After shifting to the new building, the capacity of the hospital will increase from 100 beds to 370. Also, for the first time the facility of ICU will also be added here. The construction of this hospital located in Jafarpur village was started in the eighties.
In the year 1989, the hospital started functioning as a polyclinic. In the year 1995 the hospital started 25 bedded services and after four years in the year 1999 the number of beds was increased to 100. Since then it is functioning as a general hospital. In view of the increasing number of patients here, the Delhi government decided to increase the beds in the hospital and to construct a new building in place of the dilapidated building. Medical Superintendent of the hospital Dr. Amitab Bhasin said that the construction work of the new building is almost complete. We are expecting to start shifting to the new building from August.
Facilities will increase in the hospital
With the construction of new building in the hospital, many other facilities will also increase. Presently this hospital is providing normal services. Blood Bank, Maternal Child Health Department, Pediatrics Nursery Department and others will be started here in the coming days. Till now patients were referred to DDU and other hospitals for these facilities.