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-ChancellorProf OP Kalra
DeanDr.Sarita Maggu[1]
DirectorDr. R.K. Yadav [1][2]
Location
Rohtak
,
Haryana
,
India

28.880239°N 76.605407°E / 28.880239; 76.605407
Websitewww.pgimsrohtak.ac.in

Pt. B.D.Sharma, PGIMS, Rohtak is situated at a distance of 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 Institution 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.

Following the establishment Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences in 2008, it was incorporated in the university.[3]

Campus

The Institute Complex houses the following buildings:

  • Medical College
  • Sushruta Auditorium
  • 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 remarkably well developed campus spread over an area of 350 acres (1.4 km2) of land. During the 56 years of its existence, Pt. B.D.Sharma, PGIMS, Rohtak has witnessed a phenomenal growth achieving not only its designated goals but also in expanding its horizons to set newer objectives completely commensurable with the requirements of National goal of "Health for all by 2020". The institute, over the years, has developed excellent organizational structure through its statutory and non-statutory authorities resulting in establishment of a well regulated administrative machinery and achievement of excellence in academic functioning and medical research and providing high level of medical care to the patients. Just to give a glimpse of the services rendered by the hospital to the needy patients, nearly 11,38,980 patients were provided consultation and treatment in the out patient departments during the year 2004–2005. Out of these 68,000 patients were admitted as indoor patients. It witnessed a daily opd of nearly 14000 daily in 2012 and is growing constantly. Nearly 1, 50, 000 surgeries were done in 2012. Its bed occupancy rate is more than 100%. The expansion of the hospital campus at Rohtak has been phenomenal both in terms of academic expansion as well as providing infrastructural and other support facilities. It has been ranked 31st best medical college in India.

See also

References
  1. "Administration". www.pgimsrohtak.ac.in. Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  2. The Times of India. Times News Network. 25 September 2018 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jind/missing-newborn-2-weeks-on-pgims-director-resigns/articleshow/60823885.cms. Retrieved 26 January 2018. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. "Incorporated Colleges/Institutes". Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
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