Nadda Reviews RHTC Najafgarh, 94,927 OPD Visits Logged

Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda reviewed the progress of the Rural Health Training Centre (RHTC), Najafgarh, in New Delhi on 13 November 2026. The centre works under the Directorate General of Health Services in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The Minister was briefed on patient care, diagnostics, staffing, academic facilities, quality assurance and community health work, and he credited Safdarjung Hospital and the Ministry with supporting the institution's growth.

Patient load from August to October 2026

The hospital runs functional labour rooms, an Anti-Rabies Centre, a snake bite treatment facility, Ayurvedic and dental clinics and a pharmacy whose formulary lists more than 350 medicines.

Diagnostics and support services

• The laboratory holds NABL accreditation.
• The ultrasound facility started on 24 October 2026 and has done 148 scans.
• Physiotherapy and audiometry units are working, with 252 audiometry tests done in the same three months.
• The sterile supply department, effluent and sewage treatment plants and the medical gas pipeline have been completed.
• A blood storage unit and a mortuary are to be made operational by January 2027, and computed tomography and X-ray services in the first quarter of 2027.

Teaching and quality

The ANM Training School has been renovated and takes in 44 students a year for a two-year course, with a hostel of 60 beds. Under the National Quality Assurance Standards, the centre is working through 129 action points for its three Urban Primary Health Centres; 105 are complete and 24 are in progress. State-level certification is targeted for December 2026 and national evaluation from February 2027.

The road ahead

Specialised clinics for thalassemia, de-addiction, adolescent health, venereal disease, rheumatology and non-communicable diseases are planned by December 2026. Teaching departments in family medicine and emergency medicine are to open by early 2027, and the centre is being upgraded into a 230-bedded hospital. Set up in 1937, RHTC Najafgarh serves rural and peri-urban Delhi through three Urban Primary Health Centres at Najafgarh, Ujwa and Palam with their sub-centres.