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Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Road

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Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Road (Hindi: बंगबंधु शेख मुजीब मार्ग, Urdu: بنگ بندھو شیخ مجیب روڈ, Bengali: বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিব সড়ক) is a street situated in New Delhi, capital of India. Its former name is Park Street. The name was changed by New Delhi Municipal Council to expressing a "friendly gesture" to Bangladesh. The road is renamed after Bangabandhu, founding father of Bangladesh.The road starts from traffic roundabout that connects Shankar Road and Mandir Marg, from that point the road goes towards Mother Teresa Crescent. Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital is located next to it.Sushma Swaraj, former External Affairs Minister of India, chose the position of the road.

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Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Road
Shankar Road, New Delhi Rakab Ganj (Chanakya Puri Tehsil)

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Shankar Road
110004 New Delhi, Rakab Ganj (Chanakya Puri Tehsil)
Delhi, India
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Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital

Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (formerly known as Willingdon Hospital) is a government hospital in New Delhi, India. The hospital was founded, with 54 beds, in 1932 by the British Raj for their own government staff. In 1954, in the newly independent India, control of the hospital was transferred to the Central Government's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. It was renamed in 1970s after Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, the most important proponent of socialist ideology in India. The hospital is spread over 30 acres (12 ha), with 4 acres (1.6 ha) of land set aside for its Nurse's Hostel. It is a Central Government hospitals because of its well-positioned location, a seventy-one bed Nursing Home for Central Government Health Scheme beneficiaries, and extensive subspecialty care. The hospital also has emergency services and has current plans for the construction of a 16-Storey Doctor's Hostel and a new MBBS building on its free land.Annually, the hospital provides services to about 1.2 million patients as OPD cases, admits about 46,000 patients and attends about 150,000 emergency patients; it has 1420 beds. The hospital conducts about 10,000 CT scans, 2,000 MRI scans, 200,000 X-ray cases, 2.8 million laboratory tests, 25,000 ultrasound scans, and about 9,000 major and 40,000 minor operations per year. The hospital runs daily separate CGHS OPDs for CGHS beneficiaries. The hospital started MBBS course from 2019 session with 100 seats under the aegis of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences. The Hospital also has plans to increase the number of beds to about 3000 exceeding that of Safdarjung Hospital.