T. B. Clinic
Contact No.- 011-43560486, Email: rkmtbc@gmail.com
Started at Chunamandi, Paharganj, in a small rented room in October 1933, “as a philanthropic institution” to serve specially the poorer sections of the community, the clinic was shifted to a comparatively spacious house near Jama Masjid in August 1934. In September 1935, the clinic was again moved to a well-ventilated and spacious building named “Hanging Bridge” near Edward Park in Daryaganj. This was the first TB Clinic in Delhi, and it demonstrated the efficacy of managing TB patients on out-patient basis in an era when no specific anti-TB drugs were available. The statistics for the period 1933-35 demonstrated the need and advantages of such care for poor TB patients who could not afford to be admitted to TB Sanatoria.
A scheme for a permanent building was formulated in 1938. The Mission authorities had approached the local government for the allotment of a plot of land in Daryaganj for erecting a permanent building for the clinic. While the local government agreed to allot a site and negotiations for it were proceeding, Delhi Improvement Trust came into existence and offered an alternative site near Kashmiri Gate, which the Mission authorities accepted. Later, with the modification of the TB Control Programmes in 1938, Delhi Improvement Trust offered the Mission authorities the present site at Karol Bagh (Arya Samaj Road) in 1940. The Mission got possession of the land on 11 March 1940. An additional plot of land was also acquired for staff quarters etc. Construction of the TB Clinic building was completed by the end of 1947. The formal opening ceremony of the new building was performed by Union Health Minister Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. In August 1949, the clinic began to admit indoor patients to its 16 observation beds. An ENT department was added the same year. Another building to accommodate residential staff was constructed on an adjacent plot of land in 1954.A scheme for a permanent building was formulated in 1938. The Mission authorities had approached the local government for the allotment of a plot of land in Daryaganj for erecting a permanent building for the clinic. While the local government agreed to allot a site and negotiations for it were proceeding, Delhi Improvement Trust came into existence and offered an alternative site near Kashmiri Gate, which the Mission authorities accepted. Later, with the modification of the TB Control Programmes in 1938, Delhi Improvement Trust offered the Mission authorities the present site at Karol Bagh (Arya Samaj Road) in 1940. The Mission got possession of the land on 11 March 1940. An additional plot of land was also acquired for staff quarters etc. Construction of the TB Clinic building was completed by the end of 1947. The formal opening ceremony of the new building was performed by Union Health Minister Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. In August 1949, the clinic began to admit indoor patients to its 16 observation beds. An ENT department was added the same year. Another building to accommodate residential staff was constructed on an adjacent plot of land in 1954.A scheme for a permanent building was formulated in 1938. The Mission authorities had approached the local government for the allotment of a plot of land in Daryaganj for erecting a permanent building for the clinic. While the local government agreed to allot a site and negotiations for it were proceeding, Delhi Improvement Trust came into existence and offered an alternative site near Kashmiri Gate, which the Mission authorities accepted. Later, with the modification of the TB Control Programmes in 1938, Delhi Improvement Trust offered the Mission authorities the present site at Karol Bagh (Arya Samaj Road) in 1940. The Mission got possession of the land on 11 March 1940. An additional plot of land was also acquired for staff quarters etc. Construction of the TB Clinic building was completed by the end of 1947. The formal opening ceremony of the new building was performed by Union Health Minister Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. In August 1949, the clinic began to admit indoor patients to its 16 observation beds. An ENT department was added the same year. Another building to accommodate residential staff was constructed on an adjacent plot of land in 1954.A scheme for a permanent building was formulated in 1938. The Mission authorities had approached the local government for the allotment of a plot of land in Daryaganj for erecting a permanent building for the clinic. While the local government agreed to allot a site and negotiations for it were proceeding, Delhi Improvement Trust came into existence and offered an alternative site near Kashmiri Gate, which the Mission authorities accepted. Later, with the modification of the TB Control Programmes in 1938, Delhi Improvement Trust offered the Mission authorities the present site at Karol Bagh (Arya Samaj Road) in 1940. The Mission got possession of the land on 11 March 1940. An additional plot of land was also acquired for staff quarters etc. Construction of the TB Clinic building was completed by the end of 1947. The formal opening ceremony of the new building was performed by Union Health Minister Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. In August 1949, the clinic began to admit indoor patients to its 16 observation beds. An ENT department was added the same year. Another building to accommodate residential staff was constructed on an adjacent plot of land in 1954.A scheme for a permanent building was formulated in 1938. The Mission authorities had approached the local government for the allotment of a plot of land in Daryaganj for erecting a permanent building for the clinic. While the local government agreed to allot a site and negotiations for it were proceeding, Delhi Improvement Trust came into existence and offered an alternative site near Kashmiri Gate, which the Mission authorities accepted. Later, with the modification of the TB Control Programmes in 1938, Delhi Improvement Trust offered the Mission authorities the present site at Karol Bagh (Arya Samaj Road) in 1940. The Mission got possession of the land on 11 March 1940. An additional plot of land was also acquired for staff quarters etc. Construction of the TB Clinic building was completed by the end of 1947. The formal opening ceremony of the new building was performed by Union Health Minister Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. In August 1949, the clinic began to admit indoor patients to its 16 observation beds. An ENT department was added the same year. Another building to accommodate residential staff was constructed on an adjacent plot of land in 1954.A scheme for a permanent building was formulated in 1938. The Mission authorities had approached the local government for the allotment of a plot of land in Daryaganj for erecting a permanent building for the clinic. While the local government agreed to allot a site and negotiations for it were proceeding, Delhi Improvement Trust came into existence and offered an alternative site near Kashmiri Gate, which the Mission authorities accepted. Later, with the modification of the TB Control Programmes in 1938, Delhi Improvement Trust offered the Mission authorities the present site at Karol Bagh (Arya Samaj Road) in 1940. The Mission got possession of the land on 11 March 1940. An additional plot of land was also acquired for staff quarters etc. Construction of the TB Clinic building was completed by the end of 1947. The formal opening ceremony of the new building was performed by Union Health Minister Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. In August 1949, the clinic began to admit indoor patients to its 16 observation beds. An ENT department was added the same year. Another building to accommodate residential staff was constructed on an adjacent plot of land in 1954.
When the government decided to involve NGOs under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), the Ramakrishna Mission Free TB Clinic was selected as the District TB Centre (DTC) for Karol Bagh. The clinic had adopted Directly Observed Therapy Short Course (DOTS) in 1996, though the RNTCP was officially launched on 28 October 1998. From 1 April 2018 the Centre is also functioning as the District Drug Resistant TB Centre (DDR-TBC) and is responsible or initiating new DRTB cases on shorter regimens (9-12 months) of therapy as per RNTCP protocols.