Safdarjang Hospital is a 1600 bed multi-specialty hospital, one of the largest government hospitals in India. It is located in New Delhi on the Ring Road, right opposite the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) [1]. It has also recently come to serve as the teaching hospital for Vardhman Mahavir Medical College.
Named after Safdarjung, the second Nawab of Awadh, of the Awadh dynasty, who became the vazier of the Mughal Empire, it was founded in 1942 as a Base Hospital with 204 beds, for the Allied forces, during the Second World war [2]. In 1962, it became a center of training and teaching of Post-graduate students of the University of Delhi. From 1973 to 1990, the hospital and its faculty was associated with University College of Medical Sciences. But with the establishment of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in 1998, the college and hospital later associated with the newly established university.
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