The Central Ayurveda Research Institute opened an extension outpatient department at FC-5, Block A, Sector 28, Rohini on August 11, 2026. The Ayush Ministry said the facility would serve Rohini and neighbouring areas. CCRAS Director General Rabinarayan Acharya inaugurated it as an addition to the institute's clinical outreach in Delhi.
CARI's institutional account, checked on October 12, makes the service arrangement clearer: outpatient and other services continue at Punjabi Bagh, with Rohini added from August 11. The institute has operated from rented premises in Punjabi Bagh. Patients therefore have an additional location, rather than a notice that the existing centre has closed.
The larger Rohini campus has a separate construction history. At the January 5, 2025 foundation ceremony, the ministry described a 2.92-acre project costing Rs 187.15 crore, with a planned completion period of 30 months. Its design separates administrative, outpatient, inpatient and treatment functions into four blocks, combining clinical accommodation with research facilities.
That January plan included laboratories, physiotherapy units and a library, alongside proposed specialist clinics covering areas such as geriatrics, paediatrics and ear, nose and throat care. These are features of the planned campus, not a list of departments confirmed as operating in the August extension. The distinction identifies which part of the expansion patients could actually access.
Rohini also joins an institute that already delivers care through satellite units. CARI describes its Safdarjung Hospital centre, established in January 1998, as using two rooms in the main outpatient building: one for consultation and research, the other for registration, storage and dispensing medicines. This provides a concrete example of its smaller, hospital-based service model.
The Safdarjung unit reported 10,874 outpatient attendances between April 1 and August 31, 2026. Those figures belong to that established satellite centre, not the new Rohini facility. Together, the continuing Punjabi Bagh services, satellite units and phased campus project show that CARI's Delhi expansion operates through several distinct clinical locations.
