Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences

As part of the postgraduate medical training, the institute has a working tertiary care referral hospital that provides inexpensive medical care. This hospital offers treatment to patients from the whole of Uttar Pradesh, and neighboring states such as Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Orissa, and West Bengal. It is also available to almost the whole of India and neighboring countries including Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and Middle Eastern countries. Because of this reach, it is considered a destination for medical tourism.[2]

The institute employs over 250 faculty members across 32 departments. Each department consists of teaching, training, patient care, and research. Professor R.K. Dhiman became head of the institute in January 2020.[3] The dean, who is responsible for overseeing academic activities, is Prof Anish Srivastava. Prof Gaurav Agarwal is the chief medical superintendent- the overall chief of the hospital, who is assisted by Dr. VK Paliwal, the medical superintendent. It is known for being the first among all government hospitals in India to implement the Oracle-based HIS system in 1997. In 2019 the HIS was updated to be fully integrated with the PAX and telemedicine network. This was meant to provide convenience and security for patients and healthcare providers.

The institute has departments for the following fields:

• Emergency Medicine
• Anesthesiology , Intensive Care & Pain Management
• Hematology / haemato-oncology & Bone marrow transplantation unit
• Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology
• Neurosurgery
• Neurology
• Surgical Gastroenterology & Liver Transplantation unit
• Gastroenterology
• Cardio-Vascular & thoracic surgery
• Critical Care Medicine
• Cardiology
• Urology
• Nephrology
• Endocrine & Breast Surgery
• Endocrinology
• Medical Genetics
• Radiotherapy / Radiation and clinical oncology - Regional Cancer Centre
• Biostatistics and Health Informatics
• Nuclear Medicine
• Pathology
• Pulmonary Medicine
• Microbiology
• Radiology
• Transfusion Medicine
• Plastic Surgery & Burns
• Molecular Medicine
• Maternal & Fetal Medicine
• Pulmonary Medicine
• Pediatric surgical super-specialties
• Hospital administration
• Pediatric gastroenterology

The institute also has a Telemedicine unit as part of the School of Tele-Medicine & Biomedical Informatics.

ranking medical. The institute has many training programs in various specialties. These include a Doctor of Medicine, M.Ch. (Magister Chirurgie), and MD (Doctor of Medicine) programs. It also runs Ph.D. programs for basic science research and B.Sc. Nursing 4 years courses.

The library has more than 21,000 books and subscriptions to nearly 450 scientific journals. There is the main auditorium, a smaller auditorium, and seminar rooms.

All students complete two compulsory courses (Basic Course and Course on Biostatistics), and two optional courses from among those offered, including Scientific Communication, Clinical Decision Analysis, Research Methodology, Laboratory Instrumentation, Computer Applications, Biomedical Literature Search, Bioinformatics, Basic Immunology, Medical Physics, and Molecular Biology, etc. and all MD programs require a thesis. The DM and MCh programs require publications in indexed national/international journals. All residents take an entrance test.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, SGPGI was required to train some doctors virtually.[5]

The hospital is located nearly 1 km (0.62 mi) from the institute's main gate. The hospital works as a referral hospital, though patients who require treatment that SGPGI is sometimes admitted without a referral. It is a UP state government-owned hospital and it is often less expensive for patients to receive care there than in private hospitals of comparable quality in India.

The Institute hospital endeavors to work on an appointment system. Thus, the patients are expected to re-visit the Institute hospital only on appointed days, except in case of an emergency. Patients once seen are usually provided an appointment for any investigations, outpatient consultation, admission for treatment, and surgery. The in-patient treatment at SGPGIMS hospital is highly organized and all efforts are made to reduce inconvenience to patients, which is usually the case at various government hospitals. The online health information system of the hospital is synchronized with the online billing system and online pharmacy. Patients are provided all medicines, consumables, surgical material, etc. at the bedside, for which the patients are charged a highly subsidized cost, in most cases—about 30–40% less than the MRP.

SGPGI does not treat general medical emergencies but it takes patients related to the university specialties. Sometimes patients are referred to SGPGI through other hospitals.

The campus has several facilities for patients and their attendants. These include:

• PRA: Patients' relatives' accommodation, available to relatives of patients admitted to the hospital, on a payment basis.
• Vishramalaya: A daytime facility for outpatients and relatives with lockers, a place to relax, a restaurant, bathrooms, toilets, etc.
• Cafeteria, bank, post office, shops for drugs and medical consumables.

• https://sgpgims.org.in/