Pandit Dindayal Upadhyay Medical College, Rajkot was started in June 1995. It now admits 150 (100 Recognised and 50 Permitted) students per year and is the fastest growing medical college of Gujarat with the target of providing sub speciality education in 15 branches of Medicine & Surgery. It is affiliated to Saurashtra University, Rajkot.
The Civil hospital complex at Rajkot actually has the following hospitals with a total inpatient capacity of 750 beds.

Water Supply– From the Rajkot Munic Corp And Separate bore wells in the campus

Electric Supply Sanctioned Load College- : 225 KVA & hospital:550 KVA

Generators:

College:160 KVA

Hospital: New OPD Buliding:100 KVA, Old OPD Building :60 KVA, KTChildren Hospital: 60KVA, Blood Bank:120 KVA, GTSEye Hospital :2 KVA, 10 KVA Medical store, 125 KVA Zanana Hospital

Drainage & Sewage Disposal: Common STP of Rajkot Munic Corp.

Services Available :

Laboratory with blood separation unit,
Radiology department – ultrasonography, routine x-rays, CT scan (provided through the ORET project),
Postpartum unit, infertility treatment,
Physiotherapy department (equipments provided through the ORATE project),
Surgery – urology, pediatric surgery, plastic surgery, endoscopic surgery,
District handicap rehabilitation center – caters to persons with visual, ENT, orthopedic, psychiatric handicaps by providing them training & free equipments.

Bed Distribution in all Hospitals:

Shri K.T. Sheth Children Govt. Hospital Rajkot was established in 1956 with the donation from Shri Keshavlal Talakchand Sheth. It is affiliated with the Pediatrics Dept. of the P.D.U Medical College Rajkot. It has 90 teaching beds.

Highlights
1. Students of 2nd & 3rd M.B.B.S. are doing project work after attending “Problem Solving for Better Health” workshop conducted by one N.G.O.
” Health Action by people” of Trivandrum. In the year 2002-03 a total of 9 Projects were completed by students. In the year 2003-04 a total of 14 projects are being run by the students.
2. A task force project of I.CM.R. on “Mental Health Needs, Service Delivery in Earth Quake Affected Areas of Rajkot and Surendranagar District of Gujarat” is being conducted by Psychiatry Department and P.S.M. Department.
3. School Health Check-up program of Rajkot and Junagadh District is currently being carried out by P.S.M. Dept. (from 12-07-04 to 28-08-04)
4. A quantitative research on work on “UIP Evaluation in India 2004” is going on in Gujarat during Aug-Sept-2004. One faculty each of P.S.M. and Pediatrics are involved in this evaluation.

The Hospital provides following services to all irrespective of caste, creed or economic status.

Situated
Rajkot is situated in the centre of Saurashtra & Kutch. It is well connected with Ahmedabad(220 km) & Gandhinagar(250 km) by road.
Rajkot is situated on broad gauge railway line from Ahmedabad(240 km) to Dwarka, Porbandar & Somnath.
Rajkot is connected with Mumbai with daily morning & evening flight.
Within Rajkot:
Bus stand and Railway Station are 1.5 km away from the hospital and medical college.
Airport is 2 km away from the hospital.