Lok Nayak Hospital
IN New Delhi, India · multi-specialty
Trust Index 61 · Fair
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Lok Nayak Hospital, on Jawaharlal Nehru Marg in Central Delhi, is a Delhi-government multi-specialty teaching hospital originally founded as Irwin Hospital in 1936 and renamed in stages to honor independence activist Jayaprakash Narayan. It is the primary teaching hospital of Maulana Azad Medical College and provides free comprehensive care across medicine, surgery, obstetrics & gynecology, pediatrics, burns & plastic surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedics, and trauma services. As a public institution offering free treatment it has no commercial/self-pay price catalog.
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- Patient rating
- 3.4/5
- 2,371 Google reviews
- Trust Index
- 61/100
- Fair
- Data confidence
- 41%
- Partial · 25% verified
- Founded
- 1936
- 90 yrs
Medical Travel Cost Hospital Index
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.
77% of the formula backed by data
- Trust Index 61 Our index 61/100 · vs 95 same-country hospitals · 34th percentile
- Profile completeness 41 Our index 41% · share of our profile verified vs modeled — informational, not scored
- Quality & reputation 63 ✓ Verified #46 in country (Newsweek/US-News) · 3.4★ Google · objective outcomes ≫ independent ranking ≫ patient reviews · 80th percentile
- Accreditation — Not sourced — · 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 94 ✓ Verified 1,600 beds · vs 84 sourced hospitals in the registry · 87th percentile
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.
Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, Central Delhi, New Delhi 110002, India
Getting here
- Munirka 0.8 km · ~10 min (≈, OSM)
- Vasant Vihar 1.1 km · ~13 min (≈, OSM)
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, Lok Nayak Hospital carries a B grade (#46 in India — World's Best Hospitals 2026), ranks #4 of 4 on our merit score (65).
| Metric | This hospital Lok Nayak Hospital New Delhi | Medanta - The Medicity Gurugram | AIIMS New Delhi New Delhi | PGIMER Chandigarh Chandigarh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital gradeNewsweek in-country rank where ranked, else our merit score | B · 65 | AAA · 92 ★ | AA · 77 | AA · 77 |
| Newsweek rankWorld's Best Hospitals | #46 in country | #1 in country ★ | #2 in country | #3 in country |
| Patient ratingGoogle, sourced | 3.4★ | 4.2★ | 4.3★ ★ | 3.8★ |
| Accreditationindependent bodies | — | 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 Lok Nayak Hospital
Straight answers from the data on this page — cost, accreditation, rating, and location.
How is Lok Nayak Hospital rated?
Lok Nayak Hospital has a 3.4-star Google rating from 2,371 reviews, and scores 68/100 (grade A) on our independent Trust Index, alongside its rank of #46 in India — World's Best Hospitals 2026. The Trust Index is one public formula applied to every hospital — the
What is Lok Nayak Hospital known for?
Lok Nayak Hospital, on Jawaharlal Nehru Marg in Central Delhi, is a Delhi-government multi-specialty teaching hospital originally founded as Irwin Hospital in 1936 and renamed in stages to honor independence activist Jayaprakash Narayan. It is the primary teaching hospital of Maulana Azad Medical College and provides free comprehensive care across medicine, surgery, obstetrics & gynecology, pediatrics, burns & plastic surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedics, and trauma services. As a public institution offering free treatment it has no commercial/self-pay price catalog.
Where is Lok Nayak Hospital?
Lok Nayak Hospital is located at Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, Central Delhi, New Delhi 110002, India, New Delhi, India.
Traveling to New Delhi, 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 Show all dataHow 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 Imported
- Safety & complications Modeled
- Accommodation & rooms Modeled
- Facilities & access Imported
- 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 →