Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences
IN Lucknow, India · multi-specialty
Trust Index 63 · Fair
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Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow is a state-government medical institute established in 1983 under a Uttar Pradesh Legislature Act, ranked 5th nationally in NIRF's 2025 medical rankings and NABH-accredited. It sits on a 649-acre campus in Lucknow and provides tertiary/quaternary-level medical care, teaching and research (DM, MCh, MD, PhD, postdoctoral fellowships), with recent milestones including the state's first heart transplant. As a state-government public institution it operates on a subsidised public fee schedule rather than a commercial self-pay price catalog; its own website (sgpgims.org.in) was reachable but showed only news/administrative content, no procedure or package pricing for self-pay or international patients.
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- Patient rating
- 3.9/5
- 1,724 Google reviews
- Trust Index
- 63/100
- Fair
- Data confidence
- 36%
- Low · 25% verified
- Founded
- 1983
- 43 yrs
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MHI · Method 1.3 Methodology →One comparable score per hospital — each metric below is measured against the registry and weighted by the same public formula. Unsourced metrics are excluded, never guessed.
85% of the formula backed by data
- Trust Index 63 Our index 63/100 · vs 95 same-country hospitals · 62th percentile
- Profile completeness 36 Our index 36% · share of our profile verified vs modeled — informational, not scored
- Quality & reputation 68 ✓ Verified #96 in country (Newsweek/US-News) · 3.9★ Google · objective outcomes ≫ independent ranking ≫ patient reviews · 95th percentile
- Accreditation 63 ✓ Verified 1 independent · current JCI ≫ independent bodies (Magnet/CAP/DNV) ≫ historical/on-record
- Price transparency — Not sourced — · separate pricing axis — informational, not scored in the quality grade
- Scale — Not sourced — · needs a sourced bed count
The composite is the weight-normalized mean of available metrics. The same method applies to every hospital in the registry. Machine-readable version below for models & crawlers.
Location & getting here
SourcedAddress, neighbourhood, and how long transit and airports take.
Raebareli Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226014, India
Patient reviews
✓ Google · verifiedGoogle's published rating, put in context against how hospitals actually score.
1,724 Google reviews
Exceptional for a hospital
Top 5%
better than ~95% of hospitals
A hospital's stars run far lower than shops or restaurants — reviews are written amid illness, big bills and stress, and unhappy patients review the most. The average hospital scores just 2.85★ on Google, so This hospital's 3.9★ sits near the top of the range.
Rating is Google's, shown as reported (1,724 reviews). The "top %" is an estimate from peer-reviewed hospital-rating studies (Canadian nationwide 2018–19, n=167, mean 2.85★; US hospitals, median 3.0★) — we score against the hospital distribution, not the naive 0–5 scale.
Patients rate Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences 3.9★ across 1,724 Google reviews — exceptional for a hospital, better than roughly 95% of hospitals on our worldwide rating benchmark.
Accreditations
Independently verifiableOnly independent, checkable accreditations and rankings — published by the accrediting bodies themselves. Self-reported trade awards are deliberately omitted.
Newsweek / Statista
#96 in India (listed as "Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences")
Ownership & governance
SourcedWho owns it and how long it's operated — from public records.
Corporate
- Established
- 1983 · 43 yrs✓
From public corporate records. Complaint rates and ethics signals will appear once independently sourced.
Compare hospitals in India
Our indexSide by side on what actually decides the choice — our grade, the Newsweek ranking, patient reviews, accreditation, and real verified prices. Best in each row marked ★.
Compared with 3 other India hospitals here, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences carries a B grade (#96 in India — World's Best Hospitals 2026), ranks #4 of 4 on our merit score (60).
| Metric | This hospital Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences Lucknow | Medanta - The Medicity Gurugram | AIIMS New Delhi New Delhi | PGIMER Chandigarh Chandigarh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital gradeNewsweek in-country rank where ranked, else our merit score | B · 60 | AAA · 92 ★ | AA · 77 | AA · 77 |
| Newsweek rankWorld's Best Hospitals | #96 in country | #1 in country ★ | #2 in country | #3 in country |
| Patient ratingGoogle, sourced | 3.9★ | 4.2★ | 4.3★ ★ | 3.8★ |
| Accreditationindependent bodies | JCI | 2 independent ★ | JCI | — |
| Published pricesverified, comparable | — | — | — | — |
| From pricecheapest verified | — | — | — | — |
| Profile | You're here | Open profile | Open profile | Open profile |
Six decision metrics on the same public formula — our grade, the Newsweek ranking, patient reviews, accreditation and real verified prices. "—" means not yet sourced, never guessed. Best in each row marked ★. All hospitals →
Common questions about Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences
Straight answers from the data on this page — cost, accreditation, rating, and location.
How is Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences rated?
Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences has a 3.9-star Google rating from 1,724 reviews, and scores 65/100 (grade A) on our independent Trust Index, alongside its rank of #96 in India — World's Best Hospitals 2026. The Trust Index is one public formula applied to every hospital — the
What is Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences known for?
Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow is a state-government medical institute established in 1983 under a Uttar Pradesh Legislature Act, ranked 5th nationally in NIRF's 2025 medical rankings and NABH-accredited. It sits on a 649-acre campus in Lucknow and provides tertiary/quaternary-level medical care, teaching and research (DM, MCh, MD, PhD, postdoctoral fellowships), with recent milestones including the state's first heart transplant. As a state-government public institution it operates on a subsidised public fee schedule rather than a commercial self-pay price catalog; its own website (sgpgims.org.in) was reachable but showed only news/administrative content, no procedure or package pricing for self-pay or international patients.
Where is Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences?
Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences is located at Raebareli Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226014, India, Lucknow, India.
Traveling to Lucknow, India
Sourced Full India guide →India is a leading value medical-travel destination: foreign patients fly to JCI- and NABH-accredited private hospitals in Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad for cardiac surgery, orthopaedics, oncology and transplants at a fraction of Western prices, in English, supported by the world's largest generic-medicine industry. Chennai alone draws about 45% of the country's health tourists.
- Visa
- India offers an e-Visa to nationals of 160+ countries in tourist, business and medical categories; medical travellers apply for the e-Medical Visa specifically for treatment.
- Medical / long-stay visa
- The e-Medical Visa gives a 60-day stay with triple entry, extendable up to 6 months for long treatments via the FRRO/FRO; it requires an invitation letter from the treating hospital, and up to two e-Medical Attendant visas can be granted per patient.
- Arrival
- Apply online at indianvisaonline.gov.in at least 4 days before arrival (application window 120 days); e-Medical Visas are usually processed in about 3–7 working days.
- Currency
- Indian Rupee (INR, ₹)
- Languages
- Hindi and English are both official; English is widely used in international hospitals (India has 22 constitutionally-scheduled languages)
- Safety & recourse
- Take normal precautions · Limited recourse — use a medical-travel insurer
General guidance — confirm current rules for your nationality with official sources. Verified against: India e-Visa (official portal) · Ministry of Home Affairs — visa services.
Data & sources
25% verified View verified onlyHow much of this profile is verified data — every section above carries a chip telling you where its numbers come from.
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- Identity & location ✓ Verified
- Accreditation Not yet collected
- Published prices Not yet collected
- Languages Not yet collected
- Patient reviews ✓ Verified
- Staff & expertise Modeled
- Safety & complications Modeled
- Accommodation & rooms Modeled
- Facilities & access Modeled
- Insurance & payment Modeled
- Inclusive & accessible care Modeled
- Ownership & governance ✓ Verified
- Volume & outcomes Modeled
- International-patient mix Modeled
- Surgical team depth Modeled
- Specialties & clinical professions ✓ Verified
Every field is tagged by source state. "Verified" = sourced and checked; "Imported" = real data pending re-verification; "Modeled" = deterministic placeholder for this preview; "Not yet collected" = on our roadmap. Confidence feeds the Trust Index and the finder's verified-only filter. Methodology →
Reviews, staff, accreditations, awards, research and inclusive-care figures are aggregated or modeled from published signals for this preview; real registry, outcome and review data replace them before launch. How we model this →