B.R.Singh Hospital

B.R.Singh Hospital & Centre For Medical Education & Research

Eastern Railway, Kolkata

In 1934, Baba Ramrick Singh, the first Indian Railway Agent and the then acting GM of Eastern Bengal Railway(EBR) established a small health unit near Sealdah Railway Station. B.R.Singh Hospital started off with just 36 beds but is now one of the best equipped railway hospitals in India which has specialists in all the departments except orthopaedics which is dealt by the speciality railway hospital at Howrah.

This hospital is:

Divisional Hospital of the Sealdah division of Eastetrn Railway, thereby provides 100% healthcare, starting from preventive and primary to all the staff and their dependent family members.
Same Health care available for the retired staffs and their dependent family members from all over Indian Railways who has opted for the treatment at this hospital.
Serves as referral center for Eastern Railway and Metro Railway. Patients are also being referred from the adjacent Railway Zones e.g. South Eastern, East Coast, East Central and North Frontier Raiways

Basic Informations of the Hospital

Sanctioned bed strength: 461

Average Indoor Admissions per day: 48

Average OPD attendance per day: 1230

Average number of deaths per day: 02

Average length of stay in days: 6.11

Total number of regular benificiaries: 45,024

Total number of Retired benificiaries: 18,697

Some worth mentioning services......

Cardiology: Pacemaker, Halter, Echo....Read more

Neurology: Administration of BOTOX (botulinum Toxin) ..Read more

Gastroenterology: Endoscopies, ERCP...Read more