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IPGMER and SSKM Hospital

Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research and Seth Sukhlal Karnani Memorial Hospital (abbreviated as IPGMER and SSKM Hospital), colloquially known as P. G. Hospital, is a public medical college and hospital located in Kolkata, India. It is a national research institute.

Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research
Former name
Presidency General Hospital
Motto in English
Thirst for Knowledge, Heartfelt for Ailing
TypePublic Medical College & Hospital
Establishedc. 1707; 317 years ago (1707)
Academic affiliations
WBUHS, NMC, INC
Endowment₹720.368 crore (US$86 million)
(FY2022–23 est.)[1]
ChairpersonAroop Biswas
DirectorDr. Manimoy Bandhopadhyay[2]
Academic staff
515 (2024)[1]
StudentsMedical Science Course: 1,650 (2024)[1] Allied Health Science Courses : DMLT: 30 , DRD: 20 , DRT : 6 , DIALYSIS : 10 , DCLT: 10 , DCCT: 20 , D.OPT- 10 , ECG TECH : 10 , DOTT: 20 (2024)[3]
Undergraduates995 (2024)[1]
Postgraduates579 (2024)[1]
76 (2024)[1]
Location
Kolkata
,
West Bengal
,
 India

22°32′20.39″N 88°20′27.27″E / 22.5389972°N 88.3409083°E / 22.5389972; 88.3409083
CampusMetropolis
34 acres (14 ha)
NewspaperAnnals Of Medical Science And Research
Websitewww.ipgmer.gov.in Edit this at Wikidata

Location

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Located near Race Course ground and the Victoria Memorial Hall of Kolkata, its location is in the heart of Kolkata surrounded by cultural and historical landmarks like the Nandan complex, Rabindra Sadan, Academy of Fine Arts the Saint Paul's Cathedral, the Red Road and the Indian Museum. It faces the Maidan of Kolkata - a hot-spot for political rallies in the city. The Bangur Institute of Neurosciences is adjacent and functionally attached to this institution.

History

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The first hospital in Calcutta was built in the premises of the Old Fort at Gerstein Place in 1707. The Council of Fort William constructed this hospital. Initially built for the Europeans till 1770, this hospital was then known as the Presidency Hospital, after the Presidency of Calcutta and due to its proximity to the Presidency Jail of Calcutta. Later, it came to be known as the Presidency General Hospital or P.G. Hospital for short - the name which is still commonly used. In independent India, the hospital was renamed as Seth Sukhlal Karnani Memorial Hospital in 1954 after great philanthropist of Calcutta, Sukhlal Karnani.[4]

P.G. Hospital was established in 1707.[4] The East India Company (Calcutta Council) purchased the plot of land, which was a gardenhouse (in 1768) from Rev. John Zacharias Kiernander at a cost of Rs. 98900.00 along with an adjoining plot belonging to a Bengali gentleman.[5]

Rev. John Zacharias Kiernander came to Bengal from Southern India in 1758 to work as the first Protestant missionary in Calcutta. The well known Old Mission Church (Bath Tephillah -'the House of Prayer'), built by him was the earliest favourite place of Protestant worship in Mission Row at his own expense at a cost of Rs. 65,000 and established a mission school in the rear of the Church in 1767. The Presidency General Hospital was established near the St. John's Church (presently, in 1, Garstin Place and in its adjoining areas) which was in famous as a hellish side.[clarification needed]

According to Mrs. Bleshinden, "It was a veritable death-trap to those unfortunate who were driven to seek its shelter and had been the subject of constant complaint for years. At last in 1768. a house was purchased from a native gentleman for the purpose of a hospital. It stood to the south of the Maidan, practically in the country. This house with various alterations and additions, including two other buildings created in 1795 remained in us as the Presidency General Hospital".

 
Trauma care centre

The construction of the hospital started after the Government occupied the land on 20 June 1769. The west wing was completed on 2 April 1770 and the east wing on 2 June 1770. Admission of the patients started on 22 April 1770.

 
The plaque of the Presidency General Hospital, Kolkata.

The present Main Block was constructed between 1901 and 1902, the Woodburn Block, Administrative Building and Physiotherapy Building were built between 1902 and 1908. For construction of Woodburn block, total expense was Rs. 3.5 Lacs.

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 Hospital (1768), formerly intended for Europeans. In its place The European business community has established a well found clinic of his own. The Station military hospital, conspicuous by its pillared frontage was (1773) the court house of Sardar Dewani Adalat, the Chief Provincial Court of Appeal which ceased to exist on the establishment of High Court in 1862".[6] From this record, it is quite evident that PG Hospital is a part, of world heritage, I am thankful to Calcutta Municipal Corporation and the Govt. of West. Bengal for declaring heritage status to this institution in response to my appeal dated 16.1.1998.[7]

Sir Ronald Ross made his epoch-making-discovery of "Cycle of Malarial Parasite" in this hospital and was awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology on 10 Dec 1902.[8] He also received the Barkley Bronze Memorial Medal from Asiatic Society, Calcutta on 20 May 1903, Sir Ronald Ross is the first Indian (born at Almorah) Nobel laureate. After his retirement from service on 31 July 1899, he visited PG Hospital in January 1927, when the "Gate of Commemoration" bearing his statue and poem in the plaque was unveiled by Lord Lytton.

Michael Madhusudan Dutta was the first native Indian to be admitted to this hospital on 22 June 1873 and here he died on 29 June 1873.

Dr. Surendranath Ghosh was the first native Indian doctor to be appointed in PG Hospital.[9] The first floor of the Woodburn Block was renamed as Dr. S. N. Ghosh Ward, by the then Chief minister Hon'ble Jyoti Basu following the publication of the article in PG Bulletin, along with a photograph of Dr. Ghosh and facsimile of his diary page. The first Indian doctor of the hospital has been bestowed with honour.

 
Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurating IPGMER on 16 January 1957

In 1957, an offer was made to transform what is now SSKM Hospital into an institute similar to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.The then chief minister of West Bengal, Bidhan Chandra Roy, turned down the offer.[10] P.G. Hospital was the first Post Graduate Medical Institute in Eastern India in 1957 when it hospital came to be known as The Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research (IPGMER). It was inaugurated by Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the then Prime Minister of India, on 16 January 1957.

Undergraduate medical training started here with 50 number of seats rather late in 2004 after clearance from the Medical Council Of India (MCI).[11]

 
The Heritage Woodburn Block, named after sir John Woodburn

The erstwhile Chief minister, Hon'ble Jyoti Basu had pledged his body to the advancement of medical science. After his demise, honoring his wishes, his body was handed over to the college authorities. This move has triggered a wave of body donations in the state.[12]

In 2015 Medical Council of India has threatened to scrap the DM-Neonatology course due to lack of qualified faculty members for teaching the subject.[13]

In 2015 an influential Trinamool Congress leader & State Medical Council President Dr. Nirmal Maji's request, Dr Pradip Kumar Mitra, a former director of IPGMER Kolkata agreed to perform hemo-dialysis on the pet dog. Later he was removed from the post.[14] In May 2019 Ethics Committee of the Medical Council of India (MCI) recently reprimanded the three doctors involved. The three doctors in question included Dr Nirmal Majhi, President West Bengal Medical Council, Dr Pradip Kumar Mitra, the then Director, SSKM Hospital and Dr Rajendra Pandey, HOD Nephrology Department at the hospital.[15] along with West Bengal's 1st free IVF unit at IPGMER.[16] In November 2021, Government of India selected IPGMER as one of 8 Center of Excellence for Rare Diseases treatment, under the National Policy for Rare Diseases (NPRD), 2021.[17] The institute has started telemedicine-gastroenterology services for patients from districts and remote areas since October 2022.[18] In July 2023, the institution took an initiative called Medimpact to provide free online access to teaching sessions of faculty members attached with IPGMER-Kolkata, for medical students from across the globe.[19]

Rankings

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University rankings
Global – Overall
USNWR Global[20]535 (2024)
Life Sciences and Medicine University rankings
Medical – India
NIRF (2022)[21]21
NIRF (2023)[22]24
NIRF (2024)[23]22

IPGMER ranked 21 in medical Section in India in 2022 by National Institutional Ranking Framework.[21]

Layout

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One end of the premises contains various outpatient departments, wards and clinics, while the other comprises the administrative and college buildings for medical and paramedical students. The wards include Curzon, Victoria, Alexander, etc. in the Main block, the O&G blocks. Other services are the out patient departments and wards of Chest, Cancer, Nephrology, etc. The teaching buildings include the UCM, Ronald Ross, Psychiatry building, Old Emergency Building, housing lecture theaters, museums and laboratories.

Academic building is in the heart of hospital campus. It was established in 2014.

The medical college Library is situated in the seventh floor. There are two separate sections of library for the UG and PG students.

HOSTEL FACILITY:

There are three hostels for undergraduates and one hostel for postgraduate students, all inside the college campus.

There are separate boys' and girls' hostels. A newly constructed boys hostel named NEW MBBS BOYS HOSTEL is inside the PG campus and one UG hostel named MAIN HOSTEL is inside the college campus. A newly constructed UG girls' hostel is adjacent to the Academic building .

The cultural fest of IPGME&R and SSKM Hospital is CRUX which is held annually around August–September.

Organization and administration

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It is currently affiliated to the West Bengal University of Health Sciences. From 1857 to 2003, it was affiliated with the historic University of Calcutta. It is funded and run by the Government of West Bengal.

Campuses

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On 2019, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated a 244-bed level-1 Trauma Care Centre at IPGMER & SSKM Hospital. It has been built on the lines of a unit at AIIMS New Delhi, to cater to trauma patients.[24]

Directors
  • Major General (Dr.) A.K. Gupta, 1958 – 1963
  • Dr. C.L. Mukherjee, 1963–1965
  • Dr. M.M. Mukherjee, 1965–1968
  • Dr. A.K. Basu, 1968–1969
  • Dr. K.C. Basu Mallick, 1969–1972
  • Dr. D.P. Basu, 1972–1974
  • Dr. M.K. Chhetri, 1974–1977
  • Dr. S.R. Mukherjee, 1977–1977
  • Prof. (Dr.) K.P. Sengupta, 1977–1980
  • Dr. S.K. Sarkar, 1980–1982
  • Dr. S.C. Lahiri, 1982–1983
  • Dr. Ajita Chakraborty, 1983–1984
  • Dr. R.N. Roy, 1984–1986
  • Dr. P. Majumdar, 1986–1988
  • Dr. A.K. Chandra, 1988–1990
  • Dr. D. Sen, 1990–1996
  • Dr. S. Banerjee, 1996–1997
  • Dr. Dahlia Banerjee, 1997–1999
  • Dr. A.K. Maity, 1999–2003
  • Dr. B.D. Banerjee, 2003–2004
  • Dr. Prabir K. Sur, 2004–2007
  • Dr. Pradip Kumar Deb, 2007–2008
  • Dr. Pradip Mitra, 2008–2015
  • Dr. Manju Banerjee, 2015–2017
  • Dr. Ajay Kumar Ray, 2017–2018
  • Dr. Manimoy Bandhopadhyay, 2018-Incumbent

Cancer care Hub

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In June 2021 Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced that Government of West Bengal has tied up with Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai to set up 2 state-of-the-art cancer hospitals in West Bengal - one unit will be in SSKM Hospital campus, and the other will be in North Bengal Medical College and Hospital[25]

Cancer Care Hub
 
Organisation
TypeSpecialist
Services
Beds154
SpecialityOncology
History
Opened19 November 2022

Medical units

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Academic Departments

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Center of Excellence

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  • Bangur Institute of Neurosciences
  • INS Sciences Cardiology
  • Institute of Psychiatry
  • Institute of Otorhinolaryngology & Head Neck Surgery
  • School of Digestive and Liver Diseases
  • School of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Center of Excellence in Reproductive Medicine

In October 2021, Government of West Bengal declared as 'Centre of Excellence' in Medical Education and Research in the State.[31] In December 2021, Department by Surgical Gastroenterology led by Dr Abhijit Chowdhury, Dr.Sukanta Ray, Dr. Somak Das and Dr Tuhin Subhra Mandal conducted a liver transplant with its own team of doctors for the first time since the state-run hospital began liver transplant in 2009.[1]

From 19 April 2022, West Bengal's first fertility center in a government hospital has started functioning at IPGMER. The center of excellence in reproductive medicine opened its doors to outdoor patients.[32]

In January 2023, IPGMER's Department of Endocrinology has developed a non-invasive diagnostic test that can detect if a thyroid tumour is malignant or benign. It can also reveal the sub-type of the cancer.[33]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "NIRF 2024" (PDF). IPGMER.
  2. ^ "Director". Archived from the original on 15 August 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Paramedical courses".
  4. ^ a b "IPGMER SSKM Hospital". Archived from the original on 9 June 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  5. ^ Consultations, 26 April 1768
  6. ^ L. F. Rushbrook Williams, The handbook of travellers in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka
  7. ^ List of Premises that the CMC intends to include in the heritage list in terms of section 425B of CMC Act, 1980 (Amended) SI. No. 706, Page 90, Ward 70, Borough 8.
  8. ^ Ronald Ross - Biography
  9. ^ Prof, Subrata Sen, "Presidency General Hospital -Early Years" PG Bulletin (Vol. I. 16 January 1996)
  10. ^ "THE PROMISED LAND". The Telegraph (India) 08.02.09, 12:00 AM. 8 February 2009. Archived from the original on 30 July 2023. Retrieved 8 February 2009.
  11. ^ "Sham show at medical institute". The Times of India May 27, 2003, 04:13 IST. 27 May 2003. Archived from the original on 28 July 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2003.
  12. ^ "Body donation wave in Bengal after Basu's deed – Sulekha News". Archived from the original on 15 July 2012. Retrieved 30 July 2010. Body donation wave in Bengal after Basu's deed
  13. ^ Yengkhom, Sumati (3 July 2015). "Closure cloud on PG neonatology". The Times of India 02;42 IST. Kolkata. Archived from the original on 1 July 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  14. ^ Bhabani, Soudhriti (15 June 2015). "Trinamool leader Nirmal Maji refers dog to SSKM hospital for hemo-dialysis". India Today 14:55 IST. Archived from the original on 20 February 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  15. ^ "MCI pulls up doctors on dog's dialysis at state-run SSKM Hospital". The Statesman 03:15pm IST. 20 October 2019. Archived from the original on 13 July 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
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  21. ^ a b "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2022 (Medical)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Education. 15 July 2022.
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  24. ^ Yengkhom, Sumati (3 July 2019). "SSKM trauma care unit to start operations in 10 days". The Times of India 09:39 IST. Kolkata. Archived from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  25. ^ Yengkhom, Sumati; Konar, Debashis (1 July 2021). "Bengal government ties up with Mumbai hospital for 2 cancer units". The Times of India Jul 1, 2021, 06:27 IST. Archived from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  26. ^ Konar, Debashis (30 July 2012). "SSKM hospital to get Sambhunath Pundit hospital as annexe". The Times of India 03:28 IST. Kolkata. Archived from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
  27. ^ Chakraborti, Suman (24 March 2014). "Second Campus for SSKM". The Times of India 02:50am IST. Kolkata. Archived from the original on 25 March 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  28. ^ "New Polyclinic Opened in SSKM Hospital (ক্লিনিক চালু করল পিজি)". Anandabazar Patrika 00:40am IST (in Bengali). 15 January 2019. Archived from the original on 20 January 2021. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  29. ^ Yengkhom, Sumati; Ray, Saikat (29 January 2021). "Ekbalpore gets maternity home". The Times of India 04:00 IST. Archived from the original on 28 January 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  30. ^ "NMC Mandated Information 2021" (PDF). IPGMER Kolkata. 6 January 2022. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 July 2022. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  31. ^ "Institution has received the tag of 'Centre of Excellence'". www.wbhealth.gov.in. 23 October 2021. Archived from the original on 28 October 2021. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
  32. ^ Yengkhom, Sumati (22 April 2022). "Bengal's first govt hospital fertility centre starts OPD". The Times of India 10:31 IST. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  33. ^ Dutta, S.; Tarafdar, S.; Mukhopadhyay, P.; Bhattacharyya, N. P.; Ghosh, S. (1 January 2023). "Detection of driver mutations in plasma cell–free nucleic acids in differentiated thyroid neoplasm". European Journal of Endocrinology. 188 (1): 135–143. doi:10.1093/ejendo/lvac018. PMID 36744987 – via Oxford University Press.
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