Syed Wajid Ali was selected as the president of a committee of citizens, philanthropists, technocrats and government functionaries on November 5, 1958, and remained so till his death in 2008.[1]
In 1978, the institute entered into the field of education. Today,[when?] it plays a role as a leading postgraduate medical centre having a school of nursing, a school of physiotherapy and rehabilitation, a College of Medical Laboratory Technology, and offers technical courses in a spectrum of services.
Now,[when?] the hospital has 700 beds with 32 specialty services, providing diagnostic and therapeutic facilities. The hospital has a residency training program, representing a majority of the existing disciplines.
The hospital has MRI machines, pathology laboratory facilities, additional Executive II and III Wards, CCU, MICU, dialysis machines and ventilators. An operation theatre, intensive care unit. and transplant unit complex are under construction.
Clinical departments
Medical and allied
Cardiology
Chest medicine
Dermatology
Diabetes, endocrinology, and metabolism
Gastroenterology
General medicine
Nephrology
Neurology
Oncology
Paediatric medicine
Psychiatry
Rheumatology
Surgical and allied
Accident and emergency (trauma patients treatment)[6]