Sir Sayajirao General Hospital (S.S.G.H)
Vadodara was started in 1865 as the 56 bedded
Countess of Dufferin Hospital. This was then taken
over by the Government of Gujarat in 1907 and
renamed the S.S.G Hospital after the erstwhile ruler
of Vadodara, Maharaja Sayajirao II. S.S.G Hospital
is designed in the Indo-Saracen style. It is the
largest referral hospital in Central Gujarat.
It forms the teaching hospital
component of Medical College Baroda. It also houses
the Government College of Physiotherapy and
Government Nursing College. It caters to the
primary, secondary and tertiary health care needs of
the people of central Gujarat and adjoining states
of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. It also
participates in various community outreach and
national health programs.
It has 1250 teaching beds across several
clinical specialties and subspecialties, with an
annual average outdoor attendance of about 9 Lakh
patients, an average annual indoor admission of
67,000 patients and a bed occupancy rate of 90%. It
also offers select high-end surgeries such as Oncosurgeries, endo-urologic surgeries, laparoscopic
surgery and plastic surgery. S.S.G Hospital offers a
24-hour emergency service and receives around 290 emergencies each day. Its various laboratories
run approximately 2000 tests daily and the
department of Radio diagnosis has a daily load of
600 radiological tests per day. The Medical Nursing
Home on the campus is a 22 bedded facility for
patients requesting private rooms.
Funded by the Department of
Health and Family Welfare Government of Gujarat, it
renders yeomen service - practically free of cost -
to the underprivileged sections of the society and
the common man. The Rogi Kalyan Samiti of the
Hospital which generates funds from various sources
funds the management of people below poverty line
and tribal patients free of cost.
Clinical
Material (Year - 2018)
Operative Work
Daily average
(Year - 2018)
Radiological Investigations – No
of patients.
O.P.D
I.P.D
X-ray
469
231
Ultrasonography
204
97
Barium, IVP etc.
5
5 CT-IVP
C.T. Scan
22
32
Laboratory Investigations – No
of patients/samples
