Plan afoot to merge 3 Delhi hospitals into single 'super medical hub

NEW DELHI: (Mar 15) The Delhi government will integrate three major public hospitals to create an autonomous medical institute on the lines of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), according to an official statement issued on Sunday.

The integration will merge Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, the Delhi State Cancer Institute, and Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital into what the government described as a "super medical hub", the statement said.

The announcement followed a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta at the Delhi Secretariat, and was attended by Health Minister Pankaj Kumar Singh.