Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences

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Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences

Type	Institute under State Legislature Act
Established	1983
Endowment	₹820 crore (US$110 million) (2020-21 est.) [1]
Director	Prof. R.K. Dhiman
Location	Lucknow , Uttar Pradesh , India 26°44′47″N 80°56′10″E / 26.7463°N 80.9360°E / 26.7463; 80.9360Coordinates: 26°44′47″N 80°56′10″E / 26.7463°N 80.9360°E / 26.7463; 80.9360
Campus	Urban [550 acres (2.2 km2)]
Affiliations	Medical Council of India (MCI), Association of Indian Universities (AIU)
Website	www.sgpgi.ac.in

Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences is a medical Institute under State Legislature Act, located in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.^[2] It was established in 1983 and is named after Sanjay Gandhi.^[3]

The institute is on a 550 acres (2.2 km²) residential campus at Raebareli Road, 15 km from the main city. The institute offers degrees which are recognised by the Medical Council of India. It also has tertiary medical care, super-specialty teaching, training and research. Degrees are provided at the DM, MCh, MD, and Ph.D. levels, and also include postdoctoral fellowships, postdoctoral certificate courses, and senior residency. It also has degree courses in nursing and paramedical.^[4]

Programmes and faculty[]

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, 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.^[5]

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.^[6] 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, medical superintendent. It is known for being the first amongst 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 tele-medicine network.^{[citation needed]} This was meant to provide convenience and security for patients and healthcare providers.

The institute has departments for the following fields:

• Emergency Medicine
• Anaesthesiology Anesthesiology, Intensive Care & Pain Management
• Hematology / hemato-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
• Bio-statistics 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.

Academic courses and facilities[]

The institute has many training programs in various specialties. These include doctorate of medicine, M.Ch. (Magister Chirurgi), and MD (Doctor of Medicine) programs. It also runs Ph.D. programs for basic science research and Bsc Nursing 4 years course.

The library has more than 21,000 books and subscriptions to nearly 450 scientific journals. There is a 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.^[8]

SGPGI Hospital[]

The hospital is located nearly 1 km from the Institute main gate. The hospital works as a referral hospital, though patients who require treatment that SGPGI are 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 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, that is usually the case at various government hospitals. The on-line health information system of the hospital is synchronized to the online billing system and online pharmacy. Patients are provided all medicines, consumables, surgical material etc. at the bed-side, for which the patients are charged a highly subsidised 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.

Other facilities[]

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 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.

Notable people[]

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Notable alumni[]

• Amita Aggarwal, DM (1993)
• Ashutosh Tewari, MCh (1994)
• Kanneboyina Nagaraju, PhD (1995)
• Harish Poptani, PhD (1995)
• Ramakant Yadav, DM (2006)

Notable faculty[]

• Shyam Swarup Agarwal^[9]
• Rakesh Aggarwal^[10]
• Mahendra Bhandari
• Sita Naik^[11]
• Sunil Pradhan^[12]
• Rajan Saxena
• Amita Aggarwal^[13]

See also[]

References[]

External links[]

• http://www.sgpgi.ac.in/