Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal

Location

GMC is in the Fatehgarh area on Sultania Road in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.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 two departments: Anatomy and Physiology.

After 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 years to complete the task. 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 and the latter fights diseases.

The foundation stone of the surgical and medical wards (Kamla Nehru Block) was laid by Rajkumari Amrit Kaur on 6 March 1955. The foundation of the 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 and Lady Linlithgo became Sultania Zanana Hospital. Both are integral parts of Gandhi Medical College today. Lady Bhore Centre opposite Fire Brigade, Fatehgarh caters to antenatal and child welfare activities in addition to preventive and social medical counseling.

Campus

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

The campus houses:

College facilities

Central library

The central library is housed in the main building of the 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 blocks D, H and Nurse are near the Kamla Nehru Hospital, while blocks A, B, F, C, E are in the hostel area.

G Block hostel is behind the main college building.

Academics

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 National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-UG (NEET-UG) and direct nominees of Govt. of India.

Admission to post-graduate courses (MS/MD) is through NEET-PG and in-service candidates of Govt. of Madhya Pradesh.

Medico-Legal Institute

The survey committee constituted in 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 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 cities of the states.

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

The 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 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 night 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.

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 established here after the disaster for the patients suffering from eye problems due to MIC.

Studies performed in the institute: