The Hindu Business Line : GMC golden jubilee fete begins today

THE alumni of Gandhi Medical College have decided to set up an educational centre on the new campus of the college-hospital here on the occasion of its golden jubilee.

The alumni have already raised $2,50,000 for the purpose. "We will raise $5,00,000 more to form a corpus to run the centre," Dr Raja Reddy, a well-known neurologist, said.

The centre, which will be ready by the year-end, will train medicos and paramedics. There will be a library and guestrooms to accommodate visiting faculty.

Gandhi Medical College, which has recently been shifted to the Musheerabad campus that once housed the Central Jail, will be bursting into festivities for four months beginning Tuesday.

The Governor, Mr Surjeet Singh Barnala, will inaugurate the golden jubilee celebrations and felicitate former principals and superintendents of the college that produced nearly 8,000 doctors in the last 50 years.

Hundreds of alumni, from India and abroad would interact with the present generation of students, Dr G. Kishore Roy, Principal of GMC, said.

Addressing a press conference here on Monday, he said the festivities would be educative to the present generation students and those from the past batches.

Giving a glance of GMC's history, he said the college came into being on September 14, 1954, thanks to the combined efforts of Anwarulum Educational Society and the Indian Medical Association (Hyderabad branch).

It used to be called People's Medical College. It acquired the present name in 1955 and was inaugurated by the first President, Dr Rajendra Prasad, in June.

A year later, the Government of Hyderabad State took over the reins from the private management. In 1958, KEM Hospital in Secunderabad was renamed and attached to the college. Started in 1851 with just three wards, the hospital rose from strength to strength in the last 153 years. The bed strength has gone up from 310 in 1956 to 1,012.

The silver jubilee closing ceremony will be held in the first week of January next.

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