Burdwan Medical College
| বর্ধমান মেডিকেল কলেজ | |
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1969 |
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Parent institution
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West Bengal University of Health Sciences |
| Undergraduates | 150 |
| Location |
Burdwan University Burdwan-713104, West Bengal, India |
| Campus | Urban |
Burdwan Medical College is a medical college located in Burdwan Town, Burdwan district, West Bengal. It was established in 1969 by the University of Burdwan as Burdwan University Medical College. Later it was taken over by the government of West Bengal on 4 August 1976, and rechristened Burdwan Medical College. The campus is spread over approximately 51 acres.
It was a convention in the small town of Burdwan on 13 July 1907 where the decision was made to build up a hospital in the Burdwan town. In this respect, the Frazer Hospital was inaugurated on 9 November 1910 with 127 indoor beds.
Ronaldshay Medical School was formed in 1921. However, it was closed in 1958 as per the recommendation of the Bhore committee 1947 in the independent India.
Later, the proposal of establishing a Medical College at Burdwan was put. That time the Chief Minister of West Bengal was Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy who agreed to the proposal. People of Burdwan still remembers thank the visionaries like District board chairperson Jitendtranath Mitra, Maharajkumar Abhaychand, Dr. Narottam Samanta, Dr. Sailendranath Mukhopadhyay, Dr. Sailendranath Bhattacharya for development of medical infrastructure in Burdwan.
The Frazer Hospital was renamed to Bijoy Chand Hospital or ‘BC Hospital’ which was named after the ‘Maharajadhiraj’ of Burdwan, Bijoy Chand Mahtab. It remained as the district hospital of Burdwan till it was attached to Burdwan Medical College and renamed as the Burdwan Medical College Hospital. The ‘grand’ century old red coloured building of the BC Hospital is still a part of the present hospital and attracts a sense respect in the minds of the medicos as well as general people.
The initially approved beds when it was converted into a teaching hospital were 759. Gradually, it increased to 1099 number of sanctioned beds at present. The growing need of the people has raised concern in the minds of the administration and further development and setting up of newer units and further expansion work is still under process.
Presently, the Medical College is spread over a sprawling 51 acres of land. The super-speciality wing comprising the Neurology, Nephrology and Cardiology including Cardiothoracic Surgery is now relocated into a separate building from the main Hospital building.
Besides imparting MBBS course, and Medical post graduations, some Para-Medical courses like Physiotherapy, Nursing, DMLT are run under the auspices of Burdwan Medical College
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