Medical facility is a vital element of a well established city and Delhi ranks among the best as far as medical facilities in India is concerned. In Delhi, there are a number of government as well as non-government organizations offering health care facilities to its citizens. Directorate of health Services (DHS), under the government of NCT of Delhi is the major agency devoted to delivering better health care services. It coordinates with other government and non-government organization (NGOs) to deliver the best medical facility in Delhi.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has very emphatically stated that "The hospital is an integral part of a social & medical organization. The function of which is to provide complete health care solution to its population, both remedial and preventive and whose outpatient services reach out to the family as well as its home environment; the hospital is also a centre for training of health workers and for the biosocial research" There are a whole eleven hospitals that are working under the DHS. These hospitals provide OPD, IPD and casualty services.

The hospitals working under Directorate of health Services, Delhi are:

Guru Gobind Singh Govt. Hospital
Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital
Maharishi Balmiki Hospital
Malviya Nagar Colony Hospital
Moti Nagar Colony Hospital
Patel Nagar Colony Hospital
Roa Tula Ram Memorial Hospital
Attar Sain Jain Hospital
Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital
Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial Hospital
Dr. N. C. Joshi Memorial Hospital

Accidents and Injuries (Trauma)

Delhi constitutes special institutions that provide emergency services in case of accidents, immediate medical care or emergency medical treatments. In case of any tragedy, you can either call Centralized Accidents and Trauma Services (CATS) or Police control room or the Ambulance. You can also take the patient to the nearest hospital or the Sushruta Trauma Center near ISBT.

Major hospitals offering intensive care (ICU) and other emergency medical treatment are:

Burns
Burns need fast and prompt medical care.In case of an emergency, you can take the patient any of the following hospitals:

AIIMS

Hindu Rao Hospital, Civil Lines
ESI Hospital, Basai Darapur Deen Dayal Hospital, Hari Nagar Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Dilshad Garden Lok Nayak Hospital, Delhi Gate Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi Safdarjang Hospital

Drowning

You can call fire service (101) or the Police Control Room (100) or the Centralised Ambulance or Trauma Services (1099) for help. You can take the patient to any of the hospitals mentioned above for instantaneous quality treatment.

In case of minor injuries or accident one may contact:

Swami Dayanand Hospital, Shahdara Babu Jagjivan Ram Hospital, Jahangir Puri Lal Bahadur Hospital, Khichdi Pur Aruna Asaf Ali Hospital, Civil Lines Guru Gobind Singh Hospital, Raghubir Nagar Charak Palika Hospital, Moti Bagh Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital, Rohini RaoTula Ram Hospital, Jafar Pur Kalan If you come across an injured person who needs immediate medical help, you can take him to any of the above mentioned hospitals. Remember that you are not forced to disclose your identity for taking an injured person to any of the hospitals in Delhi.

The Supreme Court (SC) of India has made it compulsory for all private and government hospitals to treat each and every case of medical care regardless of the excuse of the case being medico legal. The doctor attending the patient first in such cases will accurately record the findings and provide them to the authorities as and when required

Dog Bite

If you come across a situation when a dog has bitten some one then the first thing you should do is wash the affected area with soap and water. Take the affected person to the nearest hospital for treatment. Rabies vaccination is easily available at medical stores and at all government hospitals in Delhi.

Unconsciousness

Unconsciousness is a serious condition when a patient becomes comatose due to an injury or trauma. It may also occur as a result of poisoning and other diseases like cerebral-vascular accidents, hypertension, diabetes mellitus etc. Government as well as private hospitals in Delhi are well equipped to cater any such cases. So it is sensible to take the patient to the nearest hospital for immediate care.

Heart Attack

Heart attack is a critical case which normally occurs in middle aged people where a patient feels anxiety and complains of severe pain in chest along with breathlessness, sweating, anxiety and sudden unconsciousness. Delhi has world class Cardiologic facilities with a track record of high success rate as compared to that of other countries. People from different countries visit these hospitals for treatment.

Some of the major hospitals with Intensive Cardiac Care (ICCU) facilities:

Sucheta Kriplani Hospital, Panchkuian Road Safdarjang Hospital AIIMS Hindu Rao Hospital, Civil Lines ESI Hospital, Basai Darapur Deen Dayal Hospital, Hari Nagar Escorts Heart and Research Institute, Okhla, New Delhi Lok Nayak Hospital, Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg GB Pant Hospital, Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg Guru Teg Bahdur Hospital, Shahdara For Medical Emergency Delhi has dispensaries all across the city. So a patient can be taken to a nearby dispensary between 8.00 AM to 2.00 PM.

Outbreak of Diseases

In case of any outbreak of a particular disease such as measles, chickenpox, dengue haemorrhagic fever, cholera, jaundice, etc., you can report to the same to the District Nodal Officers of the area or to the nearest healthcare. For dengue hemorrhagic fever, one can also contact the National Institute of Communicable Diseases at 22, Shamnath Marg directly. There is a control room for such outbreaks of diseases under the Directorate of Health Services. One can call these control rooms on 3722187 and 7179281 at any time of the day.

Tuberculosis

Free service and treatment for tuberculosis is available at DOTS centers in different dispensaries within the city. Some of the clinics for tuberculosis treatment: Chest Clinic, Moti Nagar Chest Clinic, Peeli Kothi Chest Clinic, Narela Chest Clinic, Gulab Bagh R K Mission, Karol Bagh Chest Clinic, Jhandewalan Chest Clinic, Nehru Nagar NDMC Chest Clinic, Moti Bagh Chest Clinic, Shahdara Chest Clinic, Patparganj Chest Clinic, Karawal Nagar New Delhi Tuberculosis Centre, Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg LRS Institute of Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases, Mehrauli RBTB Hospital, Kingsway Camp.

Regional Blood Transfusion Centers
Few of blood transfusion and donation centers in Delhi where one can get and donate blood:

Blood Examination for Malaria Parasite
Services are available free in all Hospitals and Malaria Clinics operating in Dispensaries
Sputum Examination for Tuberculosis
Services available free in all Hospitals and DOTS centers in Delhi.

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Grievances

One can lodge his or her complaints and discrepancies to the Medical Incharge or the Medical Superintendent of the concerned dispensary or Hospital. For further adherence to the issue of dissatisfaction, you can report to the District Nodal Officer at:

Dr Y P Gupta, Nodal officer (Grievances), Directorate of Health Services, E6, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110001 (Phone 3713085)

Directory of Hospitals and Medicare Centers in Delhi

Casualties, Ambulance and Emergency Services