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Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital is a major state-owned hospital situated in Chennai, India. The hospital is funded and managed by the state government of Tamil Nadu. Founded in 1664 by the British East India Company, it is the first modern hospital in India. [2] In the 19th century, the Madras Medical College joined it. As of 2018, the ...
Rajiv Gandhi Women And Children's Hospital is a hospital in Pondicherry, the capital of the Union territory of Puducherry, India. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The building is over 300 years old. [ 3 ] In 2017 a proposition was put forward to increase the amount of beds from 430 to 700. [ 4 ]
The six-storied hospital building was constructed in a record 15 months. [8] The hospital houses the National Centre for Ageing, a 200-bed facility with 40 intensive care units. This centre functions under the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital and was inaugurated virtually by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 25, 2023. [1]
The hospital grew, expanded, and moved out of the fort to its present location in 1772, where it stands today as the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, and was opened to Indians in 1842. [6] In 1785, medical departments were set up in Bengal , Madras , and Bombay presidencies with 234 surgeons.
It is located adjoining the Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health and the NIMHANS campus. It a premier institute where chest diseases are treated with expertise from the best in the field. Of special importance attributed to the hospital is its treatment of tuberculosis which is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in the region.
The Institute started functioning on 1 July 1996 when a soft opening was done by Sonia Gandhi. However, it was formally inaugurated by the then, President of India, Shankar Dayal Sharma, in the presence of Sonia Gandhi and others on 20 August 1996. It started as a 152 bedded hospital, and currently it's a 302 bedded hospital.
It offers a number of undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The hospital is the third in the government sector, after the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital and the Government Royapettah Hospital, to have a full-fledged emergency department, which includes triage area, resuscitation bay and colour-coded zones, per the Tamil Nadu ...
The college offers a four-and-a-half-year MBBS course affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences with a one-year compulsory rotating internship. There are 150 seats: 40% admissions are through a state level CET, 40% through the COMED-K entrance test, 15% through the NRI quota and 5% through the Management discretionary quota.