General Information
IRD (Chest and TB), 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 specialty clinics namely Lung Cancer, Smoking cessation, Allergy, MDR clinic on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday respectively.
Respiratory Department Achievements in last year (2021-22)
1) Dr. S.K. Sarkar Oration Award 2022 : Dr. Vinod Joshi (Sr. Prof)
2) Dr. S.N. Gaur Chest Oration Award 2022: Dr. Chand Bhandari (Sr. Prof)
3) United Academy of Pulmonary Medicine 2022
Fellowship awarded to: Dr. Vinod Joshi
Dr. Shubhra Jain (Asso. Prof)
Various awards won by P.G. Students
4) Raj pulmocon 2022 Best Paper award:
1st Prize: - Dr. Jitendra
2nd Prize: - Dr. Rajesh K. bajiya
3rd Prize: - Dr. KrishnaPriya
5) Raj pulmocon 2022 best E poster Award: Dr. Nithin N Shenoy
6) Raj pulmocon 2022 Final PG Quiz winners:
1st: - Dr. Carisma & Dr. Nithin
2nd: - Dr. Krishnapriya & Dr. Jeeva Babu
3rd: - Dr. Kartika
7) Napcon 2020 Best paper award 1st Prize: Dr. Jitendra Singh
8) Napcon 2022: 2nd prize in E Poster: Dr. Batoee Ram Meena
9) TYSA 2022 won 4th position : Dr. Manisha
10) Chest Challenge (ACCP) 2021 under
Top 50 Scorer: Dr. Syed Ahamed Mufthah & Dr. Krishna Priya
Department Activities Awareness program:
March 2021:- World TB day CME
March 2022:- World TB Day CME
World COPD Day 2021:- 17th Nov. 2021
CME & Awareness program & Quiz fan Ph. Students
World Asthma Day 2022:- 2nd May
CME & awareness program
"MEDIFEST-2022" At SMS Medical College & Exhibit departmental achievement.