Chittagong Medical College
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Chittagong Medical College Hospital Logo
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Other name
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CMC, চমেক |
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| Type | Public medical college |
| Established | 1957 |
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Academic affiliation
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Chittagong University |
| Principal | Professor Dr. Selim Mohammed Jahangir |
| Director | Brigadier General Khondakar Shahidul Ghani |
| Students | 1,050 |
| Location |
Chittagong, Bangladesh 22°21′33.34″N 91°49′50.89″E / 22.3592611°N 91.8308028°ECoordinates: 22°21′33.34″N 91°49′50.89″E / 22.3592611°N 91.8308028°E |
| Campus | Urban |
| Language | English |
| Website | cmc |
Chittagong Medical College (also known as CMC) is situated in the port city of Chittagong, Bangladesh and is the oldest medical college in the south-eastern part of the country. It is affiliated with a tertiary level hospital where clinical students are trained in Medicine, Surgery, Obs & Gynae and other sub-specialties. Currently, students from Bhutan, India, Iran, Malaysia, Nepal, Palestine, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are studying in various phases of MBBS course alongside the native students.
Chittagong Medical College Hospital was established at the present site in 1960 with only 120 beds and the outpatient services. At that time the young hospital housed only the Departments of Surgery and Gynecology and Obstetrics. Chittagong Hospital Housed the department of Medicine and allied specialties still 1969 and thereafter it remained affiliated with Chittagong Medical College Hospital as one of its teaching hospitals.
Construction of the present purpose-built six-storied CMCH was completed in 1969, which now accommodates all the clinical Departments including all their subspecialties. The hospital, which had a capacity of 500 beds initially, gradually increased its strength to 750 and finally to 1000. It runs big outpatient departments in the specialties like Medicine, Paediatrics, Psychiatry, skin and venereal diseases, Clinical Pathology, General surgery, Otorhinolaryngology, Paediatric Surgery, Ophthalmology, Obstetrics, Gynaecology, Radiotherapy, Radiology and Dentistry with an average turnover in excess of 2000 a day. The independent turnover in 1999 was about 50,000. Over 18,000 surgical operations were performed that year.
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