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Rama Sofat Hospital

hospital in Punjab, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ38251971 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dr. Rama Sofat Hospital is an infertility hospital in the Ludhiana city of the Indian state of Punjab. It is affiliated with the Indian Medical Association. The hospital was established in 1972 with a 10-bed capacity which later expanded. It was the first hospital in Northern India to provide all the infertility-related treatments.

History

The hospital was established by Dr. Rama Sofat in 1972, offering better facilities and making patients aware of the options for the treatment of infertility, particularly in the lesser-educated and rural areas of Punjab.

Facilities

See also

Healthcare in India

References

External links

"Rama Sofat Hospital -- Infertility in Ludhiana".

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The public source identifies “Rama Sofat Hospital” as hospital in Punjab, India. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rama, Sofat and Hospital.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 31, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q38251971. Authority coordinates are 30.909, 75.829. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1972.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rama Sofat Hospital” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.