Rajan Babu Hospital (RBIPMT), New Delhi

The RBIPMT hospital, which is at present Asia’s biggest TB hospital is also scheduled to get a complete makeover in the next couple of years. The hospital constructed in 1935 and sprawling over a 79-acre compound, has been ‘underutilised’ due to reducing number of TB patients. Out of 1,155 beds, only 230 beds are occupied at a given point of time. TB is no longer a serious infectious disease in India. Also, doctors now focus more on domiciliary hospitalisation, which doesn’t require the patients to stay in hospital during the treatment. Hospital has already started a maternity block with an outpatient department for pregnant women, a delivery room, immunisation facility for newborn babies and 10 beds for patients. Two doctors were also shifted from peripheral dispensaries for the purpose,