OPD Roster

Pre-anaesthetic clinic (PAC)

Registration Time: 9-11.30 am Monday to Friday; 9-11.00 am Saturday

OPD Days and timings : 
Super Speciality Block; First floor; 
9:30 am to 1 pm

Registration – Monday to Friday (9:00 A.M. to 11:30 A.M.)

Saturday (9:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M.)

Geriatric Dental Clinic

OPD Schedule

Please open online registration for these rooms on respective days only.

Ground Floor H-Block extension room no. 5&7

Days for New Patients: 
Monday & Thursday from 9 A.M to 11.30 A.M 
Patient will get results of the test in the afternoon.

Day for the old follow-up: 
Tuesday from 9 A.M to 11.30 A.M 
For patients who are suffering from Hematological malignancies, test report will be provided in the afternoon.

Number of Patients attended in the O.P.D.

HIV/AIDS, Patients

Rest of the days physiotherapy is done on a regular basis in the wards.

Duty Roster (UNIT-I)

With partial modification of earlier duty roster of Unit -I, the duty roster to be carried out w.e.f. 01.06.2024 onwards by faculty, Resident doctors, all staff etc.

Duty Roster (UNIT-II)

With partial modification of earlier duty roster of Unit -II, the new roster to be carried out w.e.f.01.04.24 onwards by faculty, Resident doctors, all staff etc.

Our outpatient services are available six days a week, from Monday to Saturday. Regular OPD timings are from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM at SSB Zone 1, Ground floor, Room 2

Our outpatient services are available six days a week, from Monday to Saturday. Regular OPD timings are from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM at SSB Zone 1, Ground floor, Room 2

Average OPD Attendance:

In the OPD, like all other specialty units patients are registered when they are referred from a primary care unit of the hospital, CGHS dispensaries or from other hospitals. The OPD is run on all working days. Registration is open from 08.30 am to 11.30 am on all days except on Saturdays when it is till 11.00 am. OPD patient attendence = New-14665, old-18320. Total= 32985 AVERAGE 200 PER DAY APPX. OPD’s are conducted in Room Nos: 612, 613, 614, 615

The OPD Schedule for Dept. of Respiratory Medicine is:

Inpatient: The department has bed strength of 40 beds (18 ward + 12 HDU + 10 ICU). Indoor beds are for care of patients with respiratory ailments requiring hospitalization. Patients with respiratory ailments requiring non- invasive ventilation, oxygen, parenteral medication, nebulization therapy and/ or monitoring are admitted to the pulmonary care ward/ HDU. For the care of these patients the faculty is ably assisted by DM Residents (12), Non-DM SR (10) and junior residents (10) who are posted in shifts.

The department performs all diagnostic and therapeutic procedures related to the management of respiratory disease like bronchoscopy, EBUS, TNBA, pulmonary function tests, ABG, intercostal intubations, pleurodesis, percutaneous tracheostomy etc. The department also provides round the clock back up for acute respiratory emergencies and critical illness of all disciplines including those from the Casualty department. The department independently manages critical care patients in 10 bedded ICU. Pulmonary Department of Safdarjung Hospital is pioneer in establishing Sleep Medicine department with 1st Sleep Lab in Govt. Hospital. The department has provided teaching training including courses like DNB (Pulmonary Medicine), Fellowship in Critical Medicine (FNB) is centre for DM (PCCM) since 2011

Attendance (Yearly) of various services provided

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Facilities: The department offers state of art diagnostic facilities to aid in the diagnosis and management of inpatients and out patients. They include:

Pulmonary Function Laboratory: The Department has machines for spirometry, complete pulmonary function test machines including diffusion capacity.

The department has procured three pulmonary function machines and four protable spirometers for measurement of lung volumes, thoracic gas volumes, diffusion factor, body plethysmography for measurement of airway resistance, compliance and thoracic gas volumes etc. The department is in the process of procuring FENO & Impulse oscillometery apparatus.

Pulmonary function tests are done on daily between 9.00 am to 4.00 pm (Saturday till 1 pm) in room no. 609.

Bronchoscopy Unit: The department has a bronchoscopy unit with adult and pediatric fiber bronchoscopes. All Bronchoscopy diagnostic procedures are performed routinely, viz- bronchial washing for cytology & microbiology, brushing for cytology, bronchoscopic/ transbronchial lung biopsy & trans bronchial needle aspiration. The department has a semi rigid medical thoracoscopy system for medical thoracoscopies. The department has an End bronchial Ultra Sound facility for evaluation of Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy along with a Radial probe for Ultra sound guided evaluation of peripheral lung masses & central tracheal abnormalities under Videoscopic guidance.

Bronchoscopies for removal of foreign bodies are also done. The department also has a rigid bronchoscope which is expected to aid significantly in the diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopic facilities.

Several new therapeutic bronchoscopic maneuvers like Balloon dilatation of bronchial strictures, electro cauterization of bronchial tumors, placement of bronchial stents and pleurodesis under vision is being undertaken.

Bronchoscopies are performed on appointment between 8.30 am to 2.00 pm. This is facility with nominal payments. Bronchoscopes are done in room No. 645.

ABG Laboratory: The department runs the central arterial blood Gas Test Laboratory. The Laboratory having two machines caters to the ABG requirements of the whole hospital and the services are available 24x7 round the clock in room no 616.

The Department also runs the ABG Laboratory located in the New Emergency Block in Room No 103. This facility too is a 24x7 facility and does approximately 400 ABG samples daily.

Sleep Laboratory: Safdarjang Hospital and the department of pulmonary medicine are credited with setting up the first sleep laboratory in India. Here patients undergo overnight polysomnography for the diagnosis and possible therapeutic options for treatment of sleep disorders. This path breaking step has practically opened up a new and dynamic sub specialty in sleep medicine. Sleep studies are done in room 662.

Besides the above, diagnostic procedures like pleural fluid aspiration, pleural biopsies, fine needle aspiration cytology – routine or ultrasound/CT guided are done routinely on an OPD basis.

OPD Every day

New Patients on – Monday / Wednesday / Friday

2nd Floor, D-Wing New OPD Building

Patient load:

A statement showing the patient care services provided by the Faculty of the SIC at the Centre is as under:

OPD Registration Timings:

Monday to Friday 8.30 am to 12.00 pm & afternoon OPD 2.00 pm to 3.00 pm

Lunch Time (Mon to Fri) 1.30 pm to 2.00 pm

Saturday 8.30 am to 12.00 pm

Operation Theatre Days:-

All 6 days, divided between two surgical teams

Radiology Centre (outsourced on PPP model): open 7 days a week from 8.00 am to 10.00 pm

Pathology Lab (outsourced on PPP model): open 7 days a week from 8.00 am to 10.00 pm

Department of urology & renal transplant super speciality block (SSB)