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The Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital is a tertiary referral hospital in Shahdara district, Delhi, India.

History
The Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital was inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Delhi Sheila Dikshit in 2003. Situated in a campus of 13 acre at Tahirpur, Shahdara district, Delhi, the hospital was constructed at a cost of inr 1530000000.

Patient registration
The RGSSH joined the national e-Hospital online platform of the Government of India in July 2018. It is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology; designed, developed and hosted by the National Informatics Centre. The platform facilitates patients to take an online appointment with the relevant departments of the hospital. Even though all the hospitals of the Central Government in Delhi and the hospitals of different municipal corporations of Delhi including the New Delhi Municipal Council are registered with the e-Hospital, the Health and Family Welfare Department of the Government of Delhi has kept its distance from the platform and none of its hospitals, except the RGSSH and the Delhi State Cancer Institutes, is registered with it. This platform also prepares electronic health records of the patients which allow them to produce their medical records easily and effectively in any hospital in the country.

Facilities
The hospital is a 650 bedded tertiary care centre providing support to the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, the Delhi State Cancer Institutes and the Swami Dayanand Hospital in East Delhi. The Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated multiple facilities and services in the hospital including for cardiac surgery, a 16 beds intensive care unit, an operation theatre complx, surgery centres for hepatobiliary and bariatrics and a department dedicated to gastroenterology on 24 October 2019.

Coronavirus pandemic
During the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the hospital has been converted by the Government of Delhi into a 450 beds special hospital for the pandemic patients. Its facilities and preparedness as a dedicated coronavirus hospital were inspected by the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan on 19 April 2020. Due to the increase in the infection rate among the healthcare personnel deployed in different hospitals of the city, the Government of Delhi requested the National Centre for Disease Control to conduct an audit in seven major hospitals of the city, including the RGSSH, to assess whether they were following the standard operating procedure and guidelines of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare regarding the pandemic. Three hotels including two luxury hotels, comprising 170 rooms in total, were attached to the hospital for providing quarantining or treatment facilities to the coronavirus infected officers and their family members of the Government of Delhi, autonomous bodies in the city and the three municipal corporations including the North Delhi Municipal Corporation, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation and the East Delhi Municipal Corporation. Some of the staff members were tested positive for the viral infection and a security guard of the hospital died of the disease in May 2020.