Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Medical College, Indore also known as MGM Medical College,Indore is one of the oldest and premier publicmedical colleges in India. Previously known as King Edward Medical School, established in the year 1848, was one of the earliest medical schools in Asia. It was converted into a medical college in 1948. Its teaching hospital Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital was established in 1955.
Indore Charitable Trust was started in 1848 by British Army troops & Central India's first Medical School was started in 1878 as 'Central Indian Medical School' for imparting medical education for both Britishers & natives and then later in 1911 it was renamed as King Edward Hospital & Medical School and continued to be the same even after independence in 1947 & later it was rechristened to its present name of Government Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College (MGM Medical College) in the year 1948 in the beloved memory of India's "Father of Nation".It's affiliated with Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital & group of hospitals for clinical training.
MBBS degrees were started from 1948 and selection done made through competitive exams.MD and MS degrees were started in the institution way back in 1953.[1] MGM Medical College, Indore, had many pioneers in the field of Pediatrics, General Medicine, Surgery and subspecialities were started as early as in 1950. MGMMC conducted the First All India Pediatrics Conference in 1955. A cardiology division was constructed in 1959 which conducted heart surgeries for poor people. MGM Medical College is one of the founder medical colleges associated with National Medical Library of India and RHD registry under ICMR.
Indore was once the centre of health care in western India. Central India's first medical institution, King Edward Medical School, was established here as early as 1848 and Indore charitable hospital was started early in 1878. The hospital is named after Yashwantrao Holkar, Maharaja of Indore, the last Holkar ruler. When it was inaugurated in 1955, it was Asia's largest government hospital and largest hospital till date in central India.
It is the first government hospital to be computerised. Its first dean was Dr. Bose, who was the head of department of pharmacology.
Total bed strength of 7 associated hospitals under MGM Medical College is around 3000. M. Y. Hospital has 1300 beds with all the major medical departments: surgery, medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, dermatology,[2] chest and TB, orthopaedics, E.N.T., ophthalmology, radiology, anaesthesiology, paediatrics, forensic medicine, and casualty, and superspeciality branches. Hospital has 25 bedded MICU, ICCU,30 hemodialysis machines, endoscopy unit. There are SICU, NICU, PICU, burn units, and surgical superspeciality units in M Y Hospital.This hospital gives special privilege to poor under a central government aided scheme.
It holds the reputation of a biggest tertiary care center in Central India and many government health schemes are operated by its social medicine department.
This seven-storied government hospital is surrounded by a group of hospitals in MYH campus: 200-bedded Chacha Nehru Children's hospitals, 100-bedded M.R. TB hospital, 100-bedded cancer hospital, 600 bedded superspeciality hospital, 500 bedded MTH Women's hospital & School of Excellence for Eye. The old KEM school built in 1878 is on this campus & it is planned to convert into a medical museum. It has a 100 bedded psychiatric hospital associated with it which is in Badganga, Indore.
125th anniversary of King Edward Medical School & MGM Medical College, Indore was celebrated in 2003.
New M Y Hospital with 1450 beds has been sanctioned by Government of Madhya Pradesh in 2025 for 750 crores rupees to be built in the same campus near New OPD building complex within shortest time span and existing old MY Hospital built in 1955 with 1250 beds will continue to cater public & patients from Indore, Ujjain regions & neighbouring states.
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