General Information
IRD, Jaipur
General Information
The Institute of Respiratory Diseases was established in year 1938 as King George Vth Sanitarium after which its name was changed to Chest & T.B. Hospital and in June, 2012 it was changed to Institute of Respiratory Diseases. This institute is now known as “Institute of Respiratory Diseases”. This 306 bedded institute has respiratory medicine and thoracic medicine departments of Sawai Man Singh Medical College, Jaipur. This institute is one of the renowned institutes in North India for chest and respiratory diseases. Patients not only from Jaipur but also from 34 districts of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi etc. come here for consulting the highly qualified team of Doctors.
The list of Superintendents till date is as follows: -
Dr. D. R. Nagpal |
01-01-1953 to 31-10-1955 |
Dr. Hans Kumar |
01-11-1955 to 07-10-1971 |
Dr. B.S. Choudhary |
30-05-1972 to 07-01-1978 |
Dr. G.S. Sharma |
08-10-1971 to 29-05-1972 08-01-1978 to 07-01-1981 |
Dr. T.N. Sharma |
08-01-1981 to 03-07-1989 |
Dr. S.D. Purohit |
04-07-1989 to 28-01-1993 |
Dr. Vimal Sharma |
29-01-1993 to 10-11-1995 |
Dr. N.K. Jain |
11-11-1995 to 15-06-2002 18-08-2002 to 30-06-2012 |
Dr. P.R. Gupta |
16-06-2002 to 17-08-2002 |
Dr. M.L. Gupta |
01-07-2012 to 31-01-2014 |
Dr. R.K. Jenaw |
01-02-2014 to 17-03-2019 |
Dr. Vinod Joshi |
18-03-2019 to till date |
Superintendent’s Message
“Institute of Respiratory Diseases is a premier institute of state catering specialist services to persons suffering from respiratory ailments. Every year more than 50,000 patients visit outdoor and more than 10,000 patients are admitted in general wards, cottage, cubical and ICU of this institute. The Institute provides treatment for tuberculosis as well as non tubercular respiratory diseases in a separate respiratory disease wing and ICU. We are running Four speciality clinics namely Lung Cancer,Smoking cessation, Allergy, MDR clinic on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday respectively.