Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research has been judged as the second best institute for medical education in India amongst 10 best Institutes. As a hospital, PGIMER has been graded the second best amongst the top fifteen multi-speciality hospitals in India and also amongst the five best Government Multi-speciality Hospitals in India by The Week -NIElSEN Best Hospital Survey 2013 published.
The cover story of the latest issue of the weekly magazine is about the ‘Best Hospitals’ in India with ‘Hi-Tech Care’. The specialities of Paediatrics and Diabetology in PGIMER have been rated as second best where as those of Neurology and Cardiology as third best. Oncology and Ophthalmology have been rated as fifth and sixth respectively.
It has also been rated first amongst eight best multi-speciality hospitals in Chandigarh. Other hospitals are: Fortis Hospital (second), Max Hospital (third), Mukat Hospital & Heart Institute (fourth), Ivy Hospital (fifth), Shivalik Hospital & Trauma Centre (sixth), Inscol Hospital (seventh) and Government Medical College and Hospital (eighth) in Chandigarh.
Other multi-speciality hospitals amongst the top 15 are: AIIMS, New Delhi (first), CMC Vellore (third), Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, (fourth), lilavati Hospital, Mumbai (fifth), JIPMER, Puducherry (sixth), Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Delhi (seventh), Medanta, The Medicity, Gurgaon (eighth), Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, lucknow (ninth), PD Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mumbai (tenth), Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi (eleventh), Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai (twelfth), Manipal Hospital Bangalore (thirteenth), Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad (fourteenth) and Max Hospitals, Delhi (fifteenth).