Introduction:
Rao Tula Ram Memorial Hospital, located at Village Jaffarpur in South-west District of Delhi is one of the five peripheral hospitals envisaged in early eighties to reduce overcrowding in larger central hospitals and to provide secondary health care to the citizen nearer to their place of residence.
The Hospital Cell of Directorate of Health Services GNCTD oversaw its plan and construction. It prepared the manpower and equipment plans and got approval of the EFC of Delhi Govt. RTRM Hospital. The hospital was constructed through PWD and started functioning as a Polyclinic in 1989. The Indoor services with 25 beds came up in 1995 and four years, in 1999, all 100 beds were commissioned. Being a rural hospital and due to scarcity of water in the area, hospital faced lots of operational difficulties, shortage of manpower and its services functioned only during day time. Since 2006, this hospital is functioning directly under the Health & FW Dept. and the financial powers of MS enhanced to that of HOD.
2. Some Statistical data about South-West District:
Geographical area | 420 sq. Km. |
No. of Assembly constituencies | 7 |
Number of villages | 88 |
Number of slums | 58 |
No of resettlement colonies | 10 |
No of unauthorized colonies | 80 |
Total population | 22.9 Lakhs (Census 2011) |
Population: Sex ratio | 836 (Census 2011) |
Decadal growth rate | 30.62% (Census 2011) |
Density per square km | 5445 (Census report 2011) |
Literacy rate | 88.81 % (Census 2011) |