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  • Commemorative Stamp
  • 27 April 2018

Safdarjung Hospital

Safdarjung Hospital and Medical Staff

The hospital's buildings with a wartime photograph of its medical staff, one of the two Safdarjung Hospital stamps.

Date of issue April 27, 2018
Denomination Rs. 5
Quantity printed 603500
Printer Security Printing Press, Hyderabad
Perforation 13½
Watermark No Watermark
Colours Multicolor
Printing process Wet Offset
Credit Mr. Anuj Kumar, Ms. Nenu Gupta
Catalogue codes Michel IN 3382 Yvert et Tellier IN 3071 Stanley Gibbons IN 3496

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The modern buildings of Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, with a wartime photograph of the hospital’s medical staff behind. One of two ₹5 stamps issued as a pair on 27 April 2018; the hospital began in 1942 as the US Army’s 100th Station Hospital and was opened to the public after independence.

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