Directorate General of Health Services (India)


The Directorate General of Health Services is an attached organisation of the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). It's the apex technical advisory and regulatory body of healthcare. It functions as a repository of technical knowledge regarding public health, medical education and healthcare, and provides technical guidance to the ministry in these domains. Dte.GHS is headed by the Director General of Health Services , a Secretary level officer of the Central Health Service (CHS). Dr. Sunita Sharma is the current Director General of Health Services.
The Dte.GHS manages the Central Government Hospitals and performs its role in public health through various subordinate organisations.
WWW dghs.mohfw.gov.in

History

Prior to independence, the officers of the Indian Medical Service (IMS) used to hold the post of Director General, Indian Medical Service. The Directorate General of Health Services was established in 15 August 1947 and the Director General of Health Services replaced the Director General, Indian Medical Service and the Public Health Commissioner. The first DGHS was Dr. Jivraj Narayan Mehta and he also functioned as the Health Secretary to the Government of India. The Contributory Health Service Scheme for the healthcare of Central Government Employees was under the administrative control of Dte.GHS.

Central Govt. Hospitals and medical colleges

The DteGHS has the administrative control of the Central Government hospitals and medical colleges:

Nursing Colleges

Public health institutes and Organizations

Point of Entries Health Units

State/UTAPHOPHOLBQU
AndamanPort Blair
Andhra PradeshVisakhapatanam
AssamGuwahati
BiharGaya
ChandigarhChandigarh
DelhiNew Delhi
GoaGoa
GujaratAhmedabad
KarnatakaBengaluru
KarnatakaMangaluru
KeralaCalicut
KeralaKochi
KeralaThiruvananthapuram
Madhya PradeshIndore
MaharashtraMumbai
MaharashtraNagpur
MaharashtraPune
OdishaBhubaneswar
PunjabAmritsar
RajasthanJaipur
Tamil NaduChennai
Tamil NaduCoimbatore
Tamil NaduMadurai
Tamil NaduTiruchirappalli
TelanganaHyderabad
Uttar PradeshKanpur
Uttar PradeshLucknow
Uttar PradeshVaranasi
West BengalKolkata

Medical Regulatory Bodies

Serum and Vaccine Institutes

Drug Procurement Organisation

  • Medical Stores Organisation
  • GMSD

Leprosy and TB Institutes

  • Central Leprosy Teaching and Research Institute, Chengalpattu
  • Regional Leprosy Training and Research Institute
  • * Aska
  • * Gouripur
  • * Raipur
  • TB Institute, Ghaziabad

Central Institutes