Archive · 30 Jul 2026
PGIMER Chandigarh Hits 107.7% Bed Occupancy in 2025
PGIMER Chandigarh is a big hospital in India that helps many people.
In 2025, it had more patients than it could normally handle, with 107.7% of its beds full.
It saw almost 2.9 million people in its outpatient clinic and did over 57,000 big surgeries.
The number of surgeries has gone up a lot in the last ten years.
The hospital has been over capacity for three years in a row, which means doctors and nurses are very busy.
PGIMER Chandigarh’s bed occupancy reached 107.7% in 2025, the third year in a row above capacity.
The institute treated 28.59 lakh outpatient department patients in 2025.
It performed 57,532 major surgeries, about 28% more than a decade ago.
Bed occupancy was 104.7% in 2024 and 101% in 2023.
The data shows a growing surgical workload over the past decade.
- Who
- Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER) Chandigarh
- What
- Recorded a bed occupancy rate above 100% and treated a large number of patients
- When
- 2025 (with data for 2024 and 2023)
- Where
- Chandigarh, India
- Why
- Mounting pressure on in‑patient departments due to high patient volume
- Bed Occupancy Rate
- 107.7%
- Year
- 2025
- OPD Patients Treated
- 28.59 lakh
- Major Surgeries
- 57,532
- 2024 Occupancy
- 104.7%
- 2023 Occupancy
- 101%