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This hospital is the oldest general hospital in India, for the practice of modern medicine and for meaningful research. It is mentioned in the book "The handbook of travellers in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka" by L. F. Rushbrook Williams that, "On the Lower Circular Road, South of Victoria Memorial is the Presidency General ...
Medical College, Kolkata, also known as Calcutta Medical College, is a Government medical college and hospital located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is one of the oldest existing hospitals in Asia. The institute was established on 28 January 1835 by Lord William Bentinck during British Raj as Medical College, Bengal. It is one of the ...
For every 10,000 people in the city, there are 61 hospital beds, [1] which is higher than the national average of 9 hospital beds per 10,000. [4] Ten medical colleges are located in the Kolkata metropolitan area which act as tertiary referral hospitals in the state.
Bangur Institute of Neurosciences, [α] also known as the Bangur Institute of Neurology and abbreviated BIN, is a government-run apex superspeciality institute/hospital located at 52/1A, Sambhu Nath Pandit Street, Bhawanipur, Kolkata, West Bengal. The institute is adjacent to and functionally attached to IPGMER and SSKM Hospital.
Total available bed strength is 1470. Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital ranked country’s best in maternity care and received the LaQshya Certificate from the Union health ministry, becoming the first medical institute in West Bengal to get it. [7] [8] Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital Road-side View
The number and beds sanctioned in different types of healthcare setup, as published by the government of West Bengal, are in the following table. [3] In this table, hospitals under other departments of state government include government undertaking organisations, and rural hospitals include those ones which were upgraded from block primary ...
Population below 6 years was 1,341. The total number of literates in Ward No. 100 was 23,195 (95.98% of the population over 6 years). [7] Kolkata is the second most literate district in West Bengal. [8] The literacy rate of Kolkata district has increased from 53.0% in 1951 to 86.3% in the 2011 census. [9]
The Institute of Child Health was set up by Dr. K. C. Chaudhuri, the doyen of Indian pediatrics, in Kolkata in 1953. Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister of India, inaugurated the institute on 16 January 1956. It is the first pediatric institute of India. [3]