King George Medical College

Name :

King George Medical College

Address  :

Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj
Medical University, Chowk

Town  :

Lucknow

State  :

Uttar Pradesh

Country  :

INDIA

Post Code:

226003

Phone  :

+91 522 2257450

Fax  :

+91 522 2257539

Web URL  :

Available

Email  :

info@kgmcindia.edu

Description

The hospital attached to the Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University is called the Gandhi Memorial amp Associated Hospitals This hospital complex is spread over an area of 88000 square meters with a conglomeration of buildings housing various departments and their respective wards Besides the main or original hospital building which houses the Radiodiagnosis Radiotherapy Orthopedic Surgery and ENT Departments and also the offices and surgical wards there are separate buildings for the Tuberculosis amp Chest Diseases Medicine Pediatrics Ophthalmics Obstetrics amp Gynecology Surgery General

Neurosurgery Plastic Surgery Pediatric Surgery Surgical Oncology and Urology Psychiatry Geriatric Mental Health Cardiology Neurology and Pathology Rehabilitation amp Physical Medicine Orthopedics and Rheumatology Departments

Several new departments like Transfusion Medicine Hospital Administration Dermatology Venereology amp Leprosy and Clinical Haematology have been created

There are also separate Outpatients Department and a new Surgical Emergency amp Trauma Centre The total number of beds are 2424 with a bed occupancy rate of 90100 The annual outpatient attendance is about 510000 and the indoor admissions number about 51000year The hospital provides speciality services in all branches of medicine Patients are attended to and admissions are made round the clock

This is a Medical University hospital where all medical surgical and nursing care was provided free of cost However charges were introduced in August 2000 Patients now have to pay a nominal charge for admission to hospital and for investigations and procedures done here In addition patients may have to buy drugs and disposables as the hospital budget does not allow for all medicines to be supplied free to the patients All the faculty members of the clinical departments of CSM Medical University are attached to the hospital as visiting consultants Besides the hospital has its own full time staff administrative and technical Thus the hospital is managed by some 250 Consultants 500 Resident Doctors 300 Nurses 63 Pharmacists 100 Technical amp Paramedical 50 Clerical and 1000 Ancillary Class IV staff

History

HISTORY
n 1870 the Maharaja of Vijaynagaram first floated the idea of starting a medical college in Lucknow and offered to donate Rs 3 lacs but due to paucity of funds this was not passed by the Government and the dream of the Maharaja could not take shape It was in 1905 that to commemorate the visit of Prince of Wales to India the Raja of Jehangirabad and Sir Taussuduq Rasool requested the Raja of Ayodhya to persuade Sir James LaTouche Lt Governor of United Provinces now Uttar Pradesh to recommend the establishment of the medical college to the Governor of India This time the Government gave its sanction but with the condition that the people of United Provinces raise a sum of Rs 8 lacs

The fund raising activities were completed within a few months notable contributors being Maharaj of Balrampur Maharaj of Ayodhya Raja of Jehangirabad Rana Sheoraj Singh and Nawab Yusuf Ali The Government of India was then informed of the collection and the Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone on 26th December 1905 on a plot of land donated by UP Government on the bank of River Gomti where once stood the beautiful Macchi Bhawan Lt Governor Sir James Latouche took an active part in the planning of this project Sir Swinton Jacob the famous architect designed the building in Indo Saracenic style so as to blend naturally with the minarets and monuments of this nawabi city

The medical college was formally opened in October 1911 the year when His Majesty King George V and Queen Mary visited India by the then Lt Governor of United Provinces Sir John Prescott Hewett Every year since 1916 the topper of the Final Professional Examination is decorated with the Hewett Medal in honor of the man who opened the portals of the college to Georgians Dr KS Nigam was the first Hewett medallist of this college Col W Selby was the first Principal and Professor of Surgery and Lt Col CA Sprawson was the first physician To start with the total faculty consisted of 5 professors and 2 lecturers On the advice of the General Medical Council of Great Britain a framework of admissions and courses of study was organised Initially the college was affiliated to the Allahabad University

The first hospital associated with Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University was built in 1914 and was called King George Hospital The funds allocated to the college could hardly be expected to cover the cost of a hospital on a comparable scale Thus this task was undertaken by the Government of India The building was again designed by Sir Swinton Jacob after making a spot study of great medical centres in Europe and adapting it the needs of this country It was ready in time for the clinical training of the first batch of students in 1914 A 226 bed hospital was formally inaugurated by the Viceroy Lord Harding on the 10th January 1914 In his speech the Viceroy reaffirmed the confident hope of the King Emperor that the college and its apparatus would be the best in the East To select the hospital equipment Major Selby spent several months in England interviewing manufacturers and inspecting their apparatus

The first postgraduate examination in Medicine and Pathology was held in 1918 The Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University and associated King Georges Hospital were formally transferred under the Lucknow University in 1921 on the establishment of the University of Lucknow and the campus had the privilege of hosting the first convocation of the University on 30th October 1922 In the year 1931 great need was felt of a womens hospital The Queen Marys Hospital across the Shahmina Road was built and formally inaugurated on 4th November 1932 with a bed strength of 52 In 1951 a 3 storied building called Gandhi Memorial Hospital was constructed for medical cases with a bed strength of 144 It was at this stage that the name King Georges Hospital was changed to Gandhi Memorial amp Associated Hospitals In 1955 another block housing the Childrens Hospital was added Yet another block was built for the Surgery department The Departments of Orthopedic Surgery ENT and Anesthesia were also created in the fifties The speciality departments of Neurology Cardiology Psychiatry and Plastic Surgery came up in the seventies The surgical superspeciality departments of Urology Cardiothoracic amp Vascular Surgery and Surgical Oncology were carved out from the Department of Surgery in 1998

During the years 1981 to 1992 the college and hospital were taken over by the State Government and all administrative control was through the State Government instead of Lucknow University However this situation again reverted back in

In 1956 this hospital had the distinction of being selected by the Rockefeller Foundation for setting up a Residency Training Programme and funds were obtained for a 5 storied Residents Hostel The programme has run successfully here and has been emulated in all the medical colleges of the state In the 1980s the college was selected as a site for establishment of a Clinical Epidemiology Unit by the International Clinical Epidemiology Network In 1991 the Unit was formally inaugurated and since has been upgraded as the KGMC Institute of Clinical Epidemiology KGMCICE

A major milestone in the history of this institution is its conversion and upgradation as the Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University This came about by an act passed on the 16th September 2002 by the Government of Uttar Pradesh under Chief Minister Sushree Mayawati This is the only medical university in the north and one of 3 such universities in the country Substantial funds were earmarked for the new university The 1st Vice Chancellor of this university was Prof KM Singh followed in May 2003 by the appointment of Padmshri Prof Mahendra Bhandari on this post In December 2003 on the request of alumni and teachers its historical name was restored and the new university came to be known as the King George Medical University However in 2007 with the return of Sushree Mayawati as Chief Minister the institutions name was again changed to Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University

Dental education at the King Georges Medical College started initially as a Dentistry Wing of the Department of Surgery in 1949 The BDS course was also started in the same year with a teaching staff of a reader a lecturer a senior demonstrator and 10 students In 1951 it became a separate Department of Dentistry in a new Dental Hospital now called the old dental college building with Prof TN Chawla as Head of Department In 1980 the Department was upgraded to a separate Faculty of Dental Sciences with 7 departments A post of Dean of Dental Faculty was created which rotates amongst the professors at an interval of 3 years With the growing need of floor area for each speciality another building across the Shahmina Road next to Queen Marys Hospital was built and fully commissioned in the year 1986 The present Dean is Dr Suresh Chandra and previous deans have been Prof TN Chawla Prof NK Agarwal Prof DS Gupta Prof CP Govila Prof KK Kapoor Prof Satish Chandra and Prof DN Kapoor In late 2003 upgradation of the Dental College into a new separate university was approved by the state government This new dental university was known as The UP King George University of Dental Sciences Prof CP Govila was appointed as the first Vice Chancellor However in 2007 under Chief Minister Mayawati the Dental University was reverted back to the Faculty of Dental Sciences under the Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University

With all these changes and many more on the anvil the new university is all set to forge into the new millenium with renewed commitment vigour and enthusiasm