India has experienced tremendous growth in education, international exports, entrepreneurship, and medicine over the last few decades. Healthcare services, in particular, have improved to the point that hospitals and doctors in India are being sought out by citizens from other countries. In the field of medicine, we are among the greatest in the world.
In the world, private and government hospitals have sprung up, housing the best equipment and highly qualified doctors to treat illnesses. A government hospital in India can now efficiently take on any kind of case and treat it with ease, on par with any private hospital. At the same time, by treating the poor, such hospitals bring honor to the nation.
The government’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is solely responsible for all of the country’s local government-run hospitals. Depending on the type of disease and its care, services for the disabled are either totally or partly subsidised.
Let’s take a look at the top 5 government hospitals in India, how they operate, what are the services they render and what makes them so popular in the country.
AIIMS, Delhi
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) was established in 1956 and is run independently by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. It’s a medical school, a public university with a medical research program, and a government hospital all wrapped into one.
AIIMS is one of the best government hospitals in Delhi and India because of its ability to treat over 8 million people annually, provide outstanding tertiary care and super speciality facilities in all fields of medicine, and do so for as little as Rs 10. According to many global surveys, the hospital provides unrivaled care in the fields of gynecology, cardiology, neurology, gastroenterology, ophthalmology, and dental surgery.
CMC, Vellore
The Christian Medical College and Hospital (CMC) is a well-known medical college and health-care facility in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. Ida Scudder, an American missionary, established this institution in 1900, and it has since grown to become one of India’s top five government hospitals.
The CMC hospital is a top-ranked hospital in India, with 39 major and 18 minor operation theatres, nearly 3,000 beds, 95 wards, close to 3 million outpatients, and 4 lakh inpatients. Its Department of Community Health, which operates low-cost treatment units and rural health units for the vulnerable, sets it apart from the rest of the hospitals.
PGMER, Chandigarh
The deep involvement in medical research for rural communities in the country distinguishes Chandigarh’s most prestigious Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER).
Though it has been called India’s best government hospital, it is also excellent at providing medical education and training to young doctors so that they can provide the best health care to the public. The World Health Organization has named the departments of psychiatry, hematology, obstetrics and gynecology, community medicine, blood transfusion, and clinical chemistry as designated research centers in India.
Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai
The Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai is the only government hospital with a preventive oncology wing. This hospital specializes in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) using cutting-edge technology such as bone marrow transplantation, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, blood transfusions, and other life-saving procedures.
In reality, when bone marrow transplantation and chemotherapy for cancer patients were first introduced in 1987, the TEM was the only hospital in the country to do so. The preventive oncology wing focuses on detecting cancer signs in patients early on and treating them before the disease progresses. Many lives can be saved in this way, and the financial burden can be reduced as well.
The Cancer Research Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of cancer. The cancer research institute of TEM is a pioneer in cancer research and education and has been recognized by WHO.
King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai
The King Edward Memorial Hospital (KEM) in Mumbai is one of India’s oldest medical education and medical care institutions. The hospital, which was established in 1926, has 1800 beds, 400 staff doctors, over a lakh inpatients, and 2 million outpatients. The service is free for the majority of society’s underprivileged citizens.
The college, which is primarily operated by the Mumbai Municipal Corporation, provides undergraduate, postgraduate, and super specialization courses for young medical students. If we go back further in time, the King Edward Memorial Hospital was the first Indian Medical College in India to be entirely staffed by trained Indian doctors.
