Why Sir Gangaram hospital

Sir Ganga Ram Hospital is a 675-Beded multi-speciality state-of-the-art Hospital in New Delhi, India. It has acquired the status of a premier medical institution with 100% bed occupancy by delivering quality healthcare for patients from all over the world.

The hospital was founded initially in 1921 at Lahore by Sir Ganga Ram (1851-1927), a civil engineer and leading philanthropist of his times. After the partition in 1947, the present hospital was established in New Delhi on a plot of land approximately 11 acres. The foundation was laid in April 1951 by the then Prime Minister of India Shri Jawahar Lal Nehru and inaugurated by him on 13 April 1954.

Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in India continues to maintain its charitable character in accordance with to the wishes of its founder. Funds generated from the hospital services are partially utilized for providing free health care to the poor and needy patients. All development activities of the hospital are financed from internal resources, with no financial assistance provided by the government or other external agencies.

The Sir Ganga Ram Hospital is committed to make available 20% beds of total strength for admission of indigenous and financially weaker section of the society. On these beds all facilities (boarding, lodging, investigations, medicine and operative procedures are free. In addition to that we are running regular OPDs for all disciplines where patients are seen free of charge. 40% of all the investigations is the OPD patients are free of charge. These facilities are provided strictly on a first come, first serve.

Liver Transplant at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

The department of Surgical Gastroenterology was founded in July 1996 with the following objective of providing highest quality health care which is affordable. The department has offered quality training for GI surgery residents and is committed to research.

The SGRH Liver Transplant Unit after being launched in 2001 has become one of the foremost state-of-the art facilities of its type in the Indian subcontinent. We provide a world-class service in cadaveric and living related liver transplantation with advanced infrastructure and experienced multidisciplinary team to support all aspects of the specialty. Our key strengths are internationally recognized faculty members who have been previously trained and have worked in the best centers abroad, operating rooms conforming to international standards and a dedicated Liver ICU which is second to none.

Our department now serves as a regional centre for liver transplantation in the Indian subcontinent, with several successful transplants having been performed on patients from different parts of the world. We have taken some National initiatives for cadaveric organ donation which we hope will take shape in the near future enabling us to transplant more and more patients with end-stage liver disease.