Date of Estb.: 1956

Kurnool Medical College¸ Kurnool

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The college was opened on 21 July 1956 by Sri T.T. Krishnamachari¸ the then Finance Minister of India. Fifty students were admitted to the M.B.B.S. Course.

Laboratories for subjects of the non-clinical course were established in due course. The construction of a clinical lecture hall-cum-clinical pathology laboratory" in the hospital and the construction of an air-conditioned mortuary for 24 dead bodies were undertaken latter and these buildings were ready by the summer of 1958.

New out-patient block of the Government General Hospital¸ Kurnool which is the associated teaching hospital was constructed at a cost of Rs 9¸00¸000/- and the inauguration of this and the clinical courses was performed on 28 January 1958 by Sri. D. K. Karmankar¸ the Health Minister of India. The first batch of second M.B.B.S. students from the batch of 50 students originally admitted to Guntur Medical college in July 1956 now joined this college for their clinical course. The first units in the major subjects of Medicine¸ Surgery and Midwifery were created in July 1957."