India API

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Hospitals API

About 30,000 hospitals across India with their kind, system of medicine, phone and position, from the National Hospital Directory.

The Ministry of Health's National Hospital Directory: government and private hospitals, nursing homes and clinics, allopathic and AYUSH, with address, phone numbers, emergency and ambulance numbers where given, specialties, and a position for about a third. As of May 2016: check before you rely on one. In an emergency dial 112 or 108.

Base URL https://api.dharun.devNo key needed for most600 units a minute, 3000 with a free keyThis page as Markdown

Hospitals near a point, by PIN code, district or name

GET/v1/hospitals

One of near, pincode, district or q. near gives the ten nearest within about 50 km, with their distance; the others up to 100, by name.

ParameterDescription
nearquerylatitude,longitude.
pincodequerySix digits.
districtqueryA district, such as Namakkal; add state to narrow it.
statequeryWith district or q.
qqueryPart of a hospital's name, 3 to 80 characters.
systemqueryOnly this system of medicine: Allopathic, Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Siddha, Unani.

curl

curl "https://api.dharun.dev/v1/hospitals?pincode=637001&utm_medium=docs"

JavaScript

const response = await fetch("https://api.dharun.dev/v1/hospitals?pincode=637001&utm_medium=docs");
const body = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(body.error.message);
console.log(body.data);

Python

import requests

response = requests.get("https://api.dharun.dev/v1/hospitals?pincode=637001&utm_medium=docs", timeout=10)
body = response.json()
if not response.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(body["error"]["message"])
print(body["data"])
Try it here

Change the values and send the request from your browser. Needs JavaScript.

Data source

National Hospital Directory with geo code (May 2016), 30284. Retrieved 2026-11-11T17:17:28Z. Licence: Government Open Data License - India. National Hospital Directory (May 2016) from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, published on data.gov.in under the Government Open Data License - India.

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