Gandhi Medical College
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| Motto | Thamasoma jyothirgamaya |
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| Type | Tertiary Care Medical center |
| Established | 1954 |
| Founder | Syed Nizamuddin Ahmed |
| Principal | B.S.V. Manjula |
| Address | Gandhi Medical College, Padmarao nagar, Secunderabad,Telangana, India, Secunderabad, Telangana, India |
| Affiliations | NTR University of Health Sciences |
| Website | [1] |
| University and college rankings | |
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| Medical - India | |
| Outlook India (2017) | 18 |
Gandhi Medical College, (founded 14 September 1954) is a medical college in Hyderabad, India. It is under the gamut of NTR University of Health Sciences. The college was originally affiliated to the Osmania University of Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Gandhi Medical College, originally named People's Medical College, was founded 14 September 1954. It was located at Humayun nagar close to the present-day Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital. It was opened because the original medical college in the area, Osmania Medical College, was unable to keep up with the demands for physicians in the State. Dr. Syed Nizamuddin Ahmed was the first Principal and the founder of the college.
Officially it was inaugurated On 25 June 1955 by the first president of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
By 1956, the college was in financial trouble, and the government of Hyderabad agreed to take over the college and develop it.
In 1958, the college was moved to Basheer bagh. The old building has since been demolished. In 2003, the college moved to its new premises in Musheerabad. The new facility, along with a hospital, was constructed on the area that formerly housed the Musheerabad Jail.
Initially the teaching hospital for the college was an infirmary that opened in 1851 with funds from philanthropists, and was named KEM Hospital in honor of King Edward VII. The hospital was renamed Gandhi Hospital in 1958. At that time nearly all the heads of units were British trained.
From 1954-2003, a total of 6090 students were admitted to the MBBS course. The number of students admitted ranged between a minimum of 42 in 1954 to a maximum of 224 in 1968. In 1970, there were no admissions.
In the late 1950s and 1960s, the college and hospital were consolidated.
In the 1970s there was a growth in so-called "super specialties" such as cardiology, cardio-thoracic surgery, neurology and neurosurgery.
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