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Introduction
Chandigarh has one of the best educational facilities in the country with many
institutes of national and international repute such as Panjab University,
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research etc. However the city
lacked a Medical College for graduate studies, i.e. MBBS. To fulfill this
deficiency, Government Medical College & Hospital was established to provide an
opportunity of a career in medicine to many promising students who were denied
this opportunity because of ‘domicile’ restrictions imposed by other states.
In addition due to ever increasing population of the city of Chandigarh, expansion
of southern sectors, satellite townships of Panchkula and SAS Nagar, expansion of
healthcare facilities were urgently required as existing facilities were
overburdened.
In order to achieve both objectives, Government Medical College & Hospital was
started in 1991.
Objectives
The broad objectives of Government Medical College & Hospital are as below :
» To provide comprehensive health careencompassing preventive, promotive,
curative and rehabilitative healthcare to the residents of North India drawn from
the urban/semi-urban and rural areas.
» To provide out-patient, in-patient and round the clock maternity and emergency
care services in all basic and supportive general specialties. These services would
be provided free to the poor and at reasonable cost to the more affluent sections of
the society.
» To provide specialized services in clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic fields like
cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, endocrinology, pulmonology,
nephrology, neonatology, neurosurgery, urology, plastic surgery and burns, etc.
» To act as a free medical institution for direct/first level contact for patients and
also as a secondary level referral center for the referred cases from nearby
smaller/large hospitals (Government/private), health centers, polyclinics and
dispensaries.
» To act, specifically, as a regional overflow multi-disciplinary institution for
referred cases by linking horizontally with other peripheral 100 bedded and 500
bedded general hospitals, major teaching institutions and larger multi-disciplinary
hospital situated in other parts of Chandigarh.
» To reduce considerably the present workload of other hospitals, especially the
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh and thereby
offer maximum relief to the economically weaker section and middle section of the
people residing in rural and semi-urban areas of Chandigarh.
» To participate in various national health programmes by linking with various
Government/private hospitals and health centers (horizontally and vertically) and
providing necessary infrastructure and facilities as per their demands.
» To fulfill the glaring deficiency of an undergraduate Medical College in the
Union Territory of Chandigarh which offers the best educational facilities in all
other fields.
» To act as a center for Continuing Medical EducationProgrammes (CMEs) for
various categories of technical and non-technical personnel of different disciplines.
» To render facilities for conducting research activities related to different
specialties.
» To continue to upgrade its facilities in response to advances in healthcare and
changing needsand trend in hospital services.
Based upon modern technology and the utilization of the modern approach for the
building of any complex, specially a large hospital, the Chief Architect,
Chandigarh Administration evolved a new concept based on the modular system
with self-contained modules for different functions with vertical and horizontal
integration, a central core which will take away the use of unending corridors of
the traditional hospital buildings constructed in the past.Hospital building has been
constructed with the highest specifications available in the country so that it can be
kept hygienically clean and relatively infection free. Crevices, projections and
other designs, which can collect dust and cobwebs, have been avoided in the
construction.
In this first phase, Block-A with approximately 250 beds, emergency areas for
various specialties, ICU, operation theatres, private wards and a canteen was
constructed. The adjoining partial construction of Block-D, which is a link between
Block- A and OPD Block-B was also completed. It was inaugurated in June, 1995,
by HE Lt. Gen (Retd.) B K N Chhibber, Governor Punjab & Administrator, UT,
Chandigarh. OPD services were started in June, 1995, inpatient admission in May,
1996, and emergency services in March, 1997.
In second phase Block-B which is an out-patient block was constructed.
Construction work of this block started in the financial year 1993-94. The
foundation stone of Block-B was laid by Shri S.B. Chavan, the Union Home
Minister. This block was inaugurated by Shri Dalit Ezhilmalai, Union Minister of
State for Health & Family Welfare on 22.6.1999.
In third phase the construction of the main hospital wing (IPD Block) i.e. Block-C
housing laundry, main kitchen, various wards and 14 operation theatres was started
in February, 1995. Its foundation stone was laid by ShriPranab Mukherjee, the
Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission and Union Minister for External Affairs.
It wasinagurated by Hon'ble Health Minister Dr. AmbumaniRamadoss on
22.09.04. Block-D(Administrative Block), having the departments of
Radiodiagnosis, Radiotherapy, Dentistry, Blood Bank, Central Sterile Services
Department and the administrative offices of various clinical departments of the
Medical College has also been completed and functional.
Block-E i.e. Academic Block having pre and para-clinical departments such as
Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pathology, Microbiology. Pharmacology,
Forensic Medicine and Community Medicine has been made functional since,
2014.
Hospital Blocks