Tirath Ram Shah Hospital is a 200 bedded multi-super specialty hospital run by a charitable trust and located in the heart of the capital city Delhi surrounded with greenery not only outside but also in the vast courtyard of the hospital and roof-top and spread over a built-up-area of about one lac sq. ft. in a three-storied building.

Tirath Ram Shah Hospital was inaugurated in 1955 by Dr. Rajendra Prasad. The hospital is accredited by NABH & NABL.

In 2014 hospital celebrated its diamond jubilee. The hospital provides treatment to patients coming from lower Socio-Economic Strata.

Tirath Ram Shah Hospital was perhaps one of the two or three hospitals of that size in the private charitable sector in Northern India. It soon became a landmark in the health care delivery scenario of Delhi with people like Col. V R Mirarjkar, a famous surgeon from Lahore, and Col. Ameer Chand, an eminent figure of medicine in north India together with Rai Bahadur Dr. Mathura Das Pahwa the famed Eye surgeon of Punjab.

The Idea of constituting a charitable trust to run a hospital was envisaged for the first time in 1949 just after the partition of the country. At this juncture, the city of Delhi had just started to grow and was in the theories of multi-dimensional expansion. A charitable trust was created by a famous industrial family of Sawhneys, initiated by Lala Ishwar Das Sawhney. He was head of the family at that time to commemorate the memory of their ancestors late Lala Tirath Ram Shah.

Just within a year in 1956 due to the nationalization of the insurance sector newly formed, the Life Insurance Corporation of India acquired all the assets of Lakshmi Insurance company. Since the hospital had already started functioning, the trustees requested and persuaded the Life Insurance Corporation of India to allow the trust to continue the running hospital on lease. So overnight landlord became a tenant but the hospital continues to function till date in this rented building over the last 65 years.

The hospital continues to flourish and serve the poorer section of the society as well as the rich and famous people of Delhi and Northern India. Whatever money the hospital made by private room admissions was pledge back to cover the expenses of nearly 25 % of the patient who couldn’t afford medical care.

During the period of the 1980s to 1990s, with the rapid advancement in the field of medical technology and changing pace of available medical facilities, the hospital gradually came to the brink of being named as an old dilapidated burnt-out hospital on the verge of closure during the last decade of the century.

Over the last 10 years or so, since Mr. Dhruv M Sawhney took over as chairman of the trust board and there has been a sort of emotional resurgence during this period. Financial aid from Triveni Engineering Industry has meant that the hospital is not only being refurbished and refurbished but also re-equipped with modern equipment.

The whole of this exercise involved several permits, licenses, certificates, pieces of evidence, and documents which all had to be updated. Following all this, there were a series of assessments and reassessments by a high-power team of experts nominated by the quality council of India.

Considering immense clinical material and opportunity for teaching and training of young doctors, the hospital has been recognized and accredited for DNB Program in Pediatric and Obstetrics and Gynecology by the National Board of Examination, Government of India.

Nearly 100 % of results are the testimony to our commitment towards training and teaching young doctors. We keenly look forward to the recognition of a few more disciplines for the DNB program by the National Board to boost the national aim of increasing the pool of qualified specialists of various fields.

This is amongst a very few institutions to have recognized the importance of a clean environment at the very early stage when the whole concept was in a very nascent stage and has thus been implemented.