Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal

Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal

Gandhi Medical College, Front View.
Motto असतो मा सद्गमय
Motto in English
 Lead us from Untruth to Truth
Type

Autonomous body(since 1997)

Controlled by Gandhi Medical College Society, Department of Medical Education, Government of Madhya Pradesh
Established 1955
Dean Dr. Ulka Shrivastav
Students 150 per year (undergraduate)
Location Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
Affiliations

Till 2013-Barkatullah University

From 2014- Madhya Pradesh Medical Science University, Jabalpur
Website gmcbhopal.net
Official Logo

Gandhi Medical College (Hindi: गांधी चिकित्सा महाविद्यालय, भोपाल , GMC) is among the oldest and most prestigious Medical Colleges in Madhya Pradesh and in India,located at Fatehgarh, Royal Market Area, Bhopal.[1]

The College is associated with the following hospitals and institutes:

Location

GMC is located in Fatehgarh area on Sultania Road in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

GMC and KN Hospital

The college stands tall on the ground where once Fatehgarh Fort stood.

It is adjacent to VIP Road, which is a major tourist attraction due to the beauty and serenity of the Upper lake. Many scenes from Bollywood movies like Rajneeti and Arakshan have been shot here. In front of the campus is one of the largest mosques in Asia, the Tajul Masjid with its Motia Talab.



History


Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal was inaugurated on 13 August 1955 by Pt. Lal Bahadur Shastri. The college started its functioning in the building of the Polytechnic College with its first batch of 50 students and 2 Departments i.e. Anatomy & Physiology.

GMC, bhopal

After a period of one year the foundation of an independent building was laid by Union Minister of Home Shri Govind Ballabh Pant on 15 September 1956 . It took seven long years to complete the immense task and this beautiful piece of architecture and craftsmanship came into existence, housed in the historic Fort of Fatehgarh, to be inaugurated by the first Prime Minister of India Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, on 13 March 1963.

Where the Fatehgarh Fort stood in 1722, now stands Gandhi Medical College. The former fought the enemy & the latter fights diseases .

:Inauguration of Lady Lansdowne Hospital for women, now known as the Sultania Zanana Hospital


The foundation stone of the Surgical and Medical wards (Kamla Nehru Block) was laid by Rajkumari Amrit Kaur on 6 March 1955, and foundation of Boys hostel was laid by the King of Nepal Maharaja Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deo on 18 November 1955.


Hospitals for men and women were established as Prince of Wales Hospital for men and Lady Linlithgo Lansdowne Hospital for women respectively. True to the saying “old order changeth yielding place to new”, the hospital changed names with change of reigns. Price of Wales Hospital became Hamidia Hospital & Lady Linlithgo became Sultania Zanana Hospital. Both are integral part of Gandhi Medical College as of today. Lady Bhore Centre opposite Fire Brigade, Fatehgarh caters to antenatal & child welfare activities in addition to Preventive and Social Medical Counseling.

Campus


The campus building is housed in Forte of Fatehgarh which was inaugurated by the first Prime Minister of India Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru.[2]

GMC Back Porch
Kamla Nehru Hospital

The Campus houses:

College facilities

GMC, Bhopal Central Auditorium

Central library

The central library is housed in the main building of college on the underground floor. It is fully air-conditioned with all the facilities.

Facilities:

Residential facilities

Residential facilities are available in the college campus for medical students, resident doctors, nurses, staff and professors.

Hostel Block D, H and Nurse's is near the Kamla Nehru Hospital, while block A,B,F,C,E in that order are in the hostel area. G Block hostel is behind the main college building.

Academics

COURSES BEING RUN BY THE GANDHI MEDICAL COLLEGE SOCIETY

Recognized by Medical Council of India & State Paramedical Council M.P.

Affiliated to Madhya Pradesh Medical Science University, Jabalpur, Bhopal.


Departments


Administration

The society has following Committees:

Admissions

Admission to the MBBS course is through All India Pre Medical Test (AIPMT) and direct Nominees of Govt. of India.[5]

Admission to post-graduate courses (MS/MD) is through MP Post Graduate Medical Entrance Test, All India Post Graduate Medical Entrance Examination and in-service candidates of Govt. of Madhya Pradesh.[5]

Medico-Legal Institute

The survey committee constituted in the year 1964 by the Government of India considered that essential mission of a Medicolegal Institute should be to train the medical Jurists, because for the lack of competent man in India, the application of forensic Medicine has become illusory.

The Mudalier committee in 1962 has also recommended the creation of a separate cadre of specially trained medical jurists to look after the work of the State. An important step in the development of medicolegal services in India would be the establishment of a Central Medicolegal Institute and the State Medicolegal Institutes functioning as Department of Forensic Medicine in Medical Colleges in the Capital city of the States.

The Government of Madhya Pradesh took a serious note of the above recommendations in the year 1965. Consequently the Government of Madhya Pradesh created the First Medico-legal Institute in India at its capital city Bhopal in the year 1977.

Medico-legal Institute played a very important role in the management of the biggest man made disaster in history, which claimed the lives of thousands and left hundreds with various disabilities, that took place in Bhopal when a poisonous gas (MIC, Methyl Isocyanate) leaked from one of the storage tanks of the Union Carbide factory on the intervening nights of 2/3 December 1984.

Postmortem examinations were conducted on many of the dead bodies and an intelligent step was taken by preserving all the body tissues and fluids for the further chemical examination as nobody was aware of as to what gas/gases have been inhaled by the people. These preserved tissues (at -20°C and -70°C) started paying dividends in the form of answers to many of the puzzling questions through chemical tests.


National Institute For Research in Environmental Health


National Institute For Research in Environmental Health

Scope of Activities: National Institute for Research in Environmental Health (NIREH), Bhopal, is one of the permanent institutes of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a Government of India’s apex autonomous organization for bio-medical research in the country. Focused research on methyl isocynate (MIC) affected population of Bhopal in the areas of

Improve environmental health research and play a leading role in tackling environmental health issues as an apex research institution on environmental health in India. Thrust Areas:

1. NIREH will have a clinical research wing having the following departments

2. The following facilities are in the process of being established at NIREH as part of Phase I of its development:


Bhopal Gas Tragedy

Gandhi Medical College and Hamidia Hospital played a crucial role in emergency response and care after the Bhopal Disaster. A regional institute of ophthalmology was also established here after the disaster for the patients suffering from eye problems due to MIC.

Studies performed in the institute:


See also

References

  1. ↑ http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-11/bhopal/33762512_1_aiims-sources-aiims-officials-academic-session
  2. ↑ "Gandhi Medical College". Retrieved 28 March 2012. |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
  3. ↑ Gandhi Medical College Society is an autonomous body registered with Registrar Firms and Society Govt. of M.P. Registration No. 4243 dated: 04.01.1997.
  4. ↑ "Gandhi Medical College". Retrieved 28 March 2012. |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
  5. 1 2 "Gandhi Medical College". Retrieved 28 March 2012. |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)

External links

Coordinates: 23°15′37″N 77°23′26″E / 23.2602°N 77.3906°E / 23.2602; 77.3906

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, April 29, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.