Lady Hardinge Medical College

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Lady Hardinge Medical College
Lady Hardinge Medical College logo.png
Motto Latin: Per Ardua Ad Astra
Motto in English
Through Adversity to the Stars
Type Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
Established1916;108 years ago (1916)
Founder Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
Endowment ₹750 crore (US$90 million)
(2024-25) [1]
DirectorDr. Sarita Beri [2]
Undergraduates 240
Postgraduates 160 including MD MS DM MCh MDS
Location
Connaught Place, New Delhi, India

28°38′6.3060″N77°12′44.9712″E / 28.635085000°N 77.212492000°E / 28.635085000; 77.212492000
Campus Urban
Affiliations University of Delhi
NMC
Website lhmc-hosp.gov.in

Lady Hardinge Medical College, also known as LHMC Delhi, is a public medical college and hospital located in New Delhi, India. Established in 1916, it became part of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi in 1950. The college is governed & funded by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. [3] [4]

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History

Nurses at Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, 1921 Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, Delhi; nurses on Wellcome V0029215.jpg
Nurses at Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, 1921

When the national capital of India was shifted to Delhi, Lady Hardinge, the wife of the then Viceroy of India, Baron Charles Hardinge, decided to establish a medical college for women, as she recognized that the lack of such a college made it impossible for Indian women to study medicine. The foundation stone was laid by Lady Hardinge on 17 March 1914 and the college was named Queen Mary College & Hospital to commemorate the visit by Queen Mary in 1911–12. Lady Hardinge was actively involved in collecting funds for the college from the princely states and the public until her death on 11 July 1914. [5]

The college was inaugurated on 7 February 1916 by Baron Hardinge in the Imperial Delhi Enclave area. On the suggestion of Queen Mary, the college and the hospital was named after Lady Hardinge to perpetuate the memory of its founder. The first principal was Kate Platt and the college admitted 16 students. As the college was then affiliated to University of the Punjab, the students had to sit their final examinations at King Edward Medical College in Lahore. The college became affiliated to the University of Delhi in 1950 and post-graduate courses were started in 1954. [5] Ruth Young, who as Ruth Wilson was the first professor of surgery at the college, served as principal from 1936 until 1940. [6] The Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital, one of the two hospitals attached to the Lady Hardinge Medical College, was built in 1956. [7]

Initially, the college was an autonomous institution managed by a governing body. In the year 1953, the Board of Administration constituted by the Central Government took formal charge of the management of the institution. In February 1978, the management was taken over by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India under an Act of Parliament. [8] One of the director professors is chosen as the president of the college, the most senior post in the college. [9]

Present form

Patients at the Lady Hardinge Hospital, 2014 The Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Harsh Vardhan interacting with patients during his visit to the Lady Hardinge Hospital, in New Delhi on October 02, 2014.jpg
Patients at the Lady Hardinge Hospital, 2014

The hospital has provided services to male patients since 1991. [10] The admission capacity to the MBBS course is for 200 students. [11] The college has two teaching hospitals, Smt. Sucheta Kriplani Hospital and Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital, with 877 and 350 beds respectively. The college and hospital also provides tertiary level medical facilities to the city. The college's Department of Microbiology is internationally acclaimed for its salmonella phage typing, and it is a World Health Organization collaborating centre for reference and training in streptococcal diseases for South East Asia. [12] It is also a surveillance center for AIDS. The first ART center for children in the country, was also started in Lady Hardinge Medical College in 2007.[ citation needed ]

Campus

The college's campus has a hostel, library, auditorium and laboratories. It also includes a ground for sports and extra co-curricular activities. [13]

Library

A new central library building is part of the auditorium building. The college's library is one of the oldest medical libraries in India and has also a good collection of number of old journals in the biomedical sciences.[ citation needed ] The library has a collection of 50,000 volumes. [14]

Rankings

Life Sciences and Medical University rankings
Medical – India
NIRF (2023) [15] 29

The college was ranked 29st among medical colleges in India in 2023 by National Institutional Ranking Framework. [16]

Departments

Notable alumni

The college's alumni are called Hardonians. [17] Notable alumni of the college include:

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