Joint Replacement Specialty is run and managed by a team of highly experienced and qualified doctors and technical health service providers. This unit is headed by Dr. (Brig) BK Singh.


Dr.(Brig.) B.K. Singh served in the Indian Armed Forces Medical Services and specialized in doing Joint replacement Surgery. He had the distinction of introducing Joint Replacement Surgery facility (JRC) at Army Hospital (Research and Referral), New Delhi. He initiated the idea in 1993 and created an Ultra Modern World Class thirty beded specialized Joint Replacement Center “JRC” in 1997. 


This is the only dedicated center for Joint Replacement Surgery of Indian Defense Services and is equipped with Laminar Airflow Theaters having the largest inventory of OT instruments, Post Operative Intensive Care Units, Comprehensive Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy. JRC is the “foremost and the distinctive center of its kind in India equipped with Navigation and Robot Assisted Joint Replacement Surgery till now set up in 2003 under Dr. B.K. Singh’s supervision.


Robot assisted knee and hip replacements ensure 99.98% accuracy in replacement and alignment of joints. Dr. B.K. Singh is the only trained surgeon in India hitherto. 

Dr. B.K. Singh has a series of more than 5000 arthroplasties to his credit and pioneered different types of Arthroplasties in India during his 15 years leading career of “JRC”. He is the only joint replacement surgeon who has the distinction in introducing and successfully doing following specialized joints in India.


  i) Uni Condylar Knee Replacement in1996
  ii) Resurfacing Hip Arthroplasty in 1997
  iii) Thrust plate prosthesis THR in 1997
  iv) Total Ankle Replacement in 2001
  v) Robotic Total Hip Replacement in 2003
  vi) Robotic Total Knee Replacement in 2005
  vii) Resurfacing Shoulder Arthroplasty (Copeland) in 2007