The Central Wing of New OPD complex brings with it many new facilities. There is specious registration hall on ground floor with registration windows for various disciplines. Separate registration window is provided for freedom fighters and senior citizens. Similarly, care is taken that the patients can get their investigations done at one point. Blood is collected at one central collection centre and samples are sent to various labs for testing, thus the OPD patients and Central Blood Collection centre is situated at ground floor. OPD along with its speciality clinics like Diabetic clinic, Thyroid clinic etc.were located on the first floor. Second floor accommodates Surgery, Cancer surgery, Urology, Minor O.T. etc. Cardio thoracic, Paediatric and Paediatric surgery immunization facilities are situated on the third floor. Fifth floor is for Dermatology and STD patients along with counseling for AIDS, Regional STD centre and centre for Sentinel Surveillance of AIDS. Average OPD attendance is 6227 per day.

INDOOR SERVICES

Indoor bed strength is 1531 including bassinets. Main casualty complex runs under one roof along with 20 observation beds for Medical (Ward-A) and 20 for Surgical (Ward-B) patients. Ten beds are arranged or sent to Ward-A or Ward-B. No emergency patient is refused in the Casualty. Average bed occupancy rate is more than 90% and the bed over rate is more than 60% in the Hospital. In addition to Main Casualty, Obst.&Gynae Casualty, Burns Casualty and Orthopaedic emergency run separately.

Bed Capacity

The Speciality-wise distribution of Beds is as under:

TRAINING & TEACHING

Teaching of Post-graduate degree and/or diploma to the students of Delhi University is undertaken in the Departments of Medicine, Surgery, Orthopaedics, Eye, ENT, Dermatology and Rehabilitation. The M.Ch. courses are also available in Burns & Plastic department. Every year 31 MD, MS, MCh and 25 Diploma students are enrolled. Department of Cardio thoracic Surgery has been recognized for DNB course. The CTVS department is also starting MCh programme affiliated to the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University , Delhi . The regular courses are also being run for Nurses training, Medical and Para-medical personnel sponsored by centre, States military and paramilitary organizations to update their knowledge and skill. Proposal regarding establishment of Medical College for 100 admission in a year has been cleared by the Ministry of Health & F.W. Govt. of India . The proposed Medical college has been affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University for which Indraprastha University has already agreed and is under process.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Regular clinical research work is being done in many departments which are published in National & International journals. CHS Officers are attending/organizing workshops & conferences in the fields of their concerned speciality.

OTHER SERVICES & FACILITIES

Fully equipped Casualty ICU & ICCU are already in existing. Arthroscopy and Sports injury clinic is being run by the Central Institute of Orthopaedics. OPD is running in a five floor building. Social Guides, audiovisual aids, public address system etc. are provided for the convenience of the patients. Wheel chairs and stretchers are available at the gate. 42 special clinics are also in the same building.

EMERGENCY POWER SUPPLY

The Hospital has got the following Generators for meeting emergency lighting arrangements:

If the new services proposed can be added in the tenth plan, the hospital can truly be one of the premier medical institutions in the Country

ACCOMODATION

Safdarjung Hospital is still continuing in several barracks, which have outlived their life but are still in occupation for want of alternative accommodation.

Over the years as activities increased, newer specialty and super-specialty departments have come up. Hospital authorities added few multistory buildings according to suitability of space. As a result the different departments have come up expanding horizontally in a scattered manner spread over an area of 47 acres of land.

Moreover, just outside the boundary wall of the hospital premises, the hospital is surrounded by -
- Hawkers and footpath vendors on the two sides (Ring Road and Aurobindo
  Marg).
- Jhuggi clusters on the remaining two sides.

WATER SUPPLY

Safdarjung Hospital needs a supply of 3400 KL. Of water for maintenance of all the services smoothly and satisfactory sanitation and cleaning which is of paramount importance for a hospital. As against the requirement of 3400 KL, water availability is as under: -

* - As per our Engineers and Technical Experts the underground water level is rapidly decreasing in volume. Therefore, the tube wells are not yielding enough water.

Negotiations are in progress with the NDMC/MCD/DJB authorities and DGHS/Ministry of Health & F.W. for getting more supply of water.

SEWERAGE SYSTEM

The Safdarjung Hospital , as have been already mentioned started in army barracks with only 204 beds. Naturally, the underground sewer pipes are not big enough in diameter to cope with the present load of the hospital. This is one of the major factors, which causes frequent sewer line blocks hampering sanitation activities. Hospital authorities are getting the sewer pipes replaced by bigger dia pipes in phased manner, which will continue for over a period of several years.

If the new services proposed can be added in the tenth plan, the hospital can truly be one of the premier medical institutions in the Country.