The National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases was established as an autonomous Institute under Ministry of Health & Family Welfare through up-gradation of the erstwhile Lala Ram Sarup TB Hospital in 1991. Over the past two decades it has established itself both Nationally and Internationally in the field of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases. The Government has supported both technically and financially to make it an apex Institute in the country.

The Institute has the prime objective of patient care, which it is delivering through its 470 bedded hospital, a State-of-Art Out Patient Department averaging 500 patients a day and Outreach facilities where it provide diagnostics and treatment to the TB patients at their door step through the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP).

Multidisciplinary and cost effective approach to control and prevention of Tuberculosis & Respiratory Diseases.
Determination of standards and maintenance of quality diagnosis and treatment of Tuberculosis & Respiratory Diseases.
Information, Education and Communication for the well being of the community.

To act as an apex Institute in the country for prevention, control and treatment of Tuberculosis and Allied Diseases.

To promote National Tuberculosis Control Programme in the country and to formulate strategies which are socially acceptable and economically feasible in order to assist and strengthen the programme.
To provide facilities for training, teaching and research activities to fulfill the above two objects.

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The Institute was first in the country to initiate the piloting of the Programmatic Management of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (PMDT) which has lead to the development of the national strategy for managing drug resistant tuberculosis.

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