Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute - VPCI, Delhi

Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute is a Postgraduate Medical Institute located in New Delhi and is supported by the University of Delhi. The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare of Government of India takes care of its endowment. It has been categorized as one of the constituent college of the University.The study and training of the students emphasizes chest diseases. The institute also provides services to people suffering from chest diseases.

Institute, today, fulfils the national need to provide medical education in field of chest diseases and relief to large number of patients in the community suffering from chest diseases. Postgraduates are trained in pulmonary medicine and allied subjects in the institute. Research and new diagnostic technologies are developed. The institution provides the intrastructure for specialized clinical and investigative services to patients.

The major goal of the institute is to provide a compassionate professional environment to make students feel comfortable and to stimulate and coordinate the institutional resources of the college and to challenge faculties and students of the institute. Institute 's hallmark is considered as a superior postgraduate experience and excellent teaching

The institute is located in the heart of the north campus of the University of Delhi, providing the requisite academic environment. V. P. Chest Institute has all the infrastructure needed for its students to pursue academic studies and research .

The library began in 1955 but it has journal issues dating back as far as 100 years. The institute has over ten thousand books,23 thousand bound journals, and national and international reports in the field of pulmonary disease and allied sciences. Library has journal subscriptions and also receives some journals in exchange with other institutions.

Hostel is also named after the surname of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, as Patel Niwas. The foundation stone of the hostel was laid on 7 April 1962 by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi, Dr. C.D. Deshmukh. The hostel was inaugurated on 6 April 1965 by Dr. C.D. Deshmukh on the Sixteenth Foundation Day of the Institute. The hostel has 30 rooms for boys and 10 rooms for girls on each floor of the three-storeyed building of Patel Niwas.