Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital is a government hospital in Swaroop Nagar, Kanpur, which was earlier called Hallet Hospital, and its campus stand adjacent to the Moti Jheel lake.[1]
It is associated with GSVM Medical College, Kanpur.[2]
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The foundation stone of this hospital was laid on August 7, 1943 by Maurice Garnier Hallett, governor of the United Provinces. It was opened by field-marshal viscount Wavell of Gyrenaica and Winchester, viceroy and governor general of India on 16 December 1944.
After the independence of India its name was changed by the government of Uttar Pradesh after the great freedom-fighter, Lala Lajpat Rai.
The main building of L.L.R. Hospital houses the departments of Medicine; Surgery; Orthopedics; Ophthalmology; Ear, Nose and Throat; Skin and Sexually Transmitted Disease; Radio Diagnosis; Outpatient; Mortuary; Casualty; Emergency Intensive Care Unit (I.C.U.); Medicine I.C.U.; and Burn Unit.
It has the largest outpatient department in Asia.
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