Madras Medical College and Government General Hospital¸ Chennai

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MD/MS
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Diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (D.G.O.)
Diploma in Child Health (D.C.H.)
Diploma in Oto Rhino Laryngology(D.L.O.)
Diploma in Medical Radio Diagnosis (D.M.R.D.)
Diploma in Medical Radio Therapy (D.M.R.T.)
Diploma in Anesthesia (D.A.)
Diploma in Orthopaedics (D.Ortho)
Diploma in Dermatology¸ Venerology & Leprosy (D.D.V.L.)
Diploma in Ophthalmology (D.O.)
Diploma in Tuberculosis & Respiratory Diseases (D.T.R.D.)
Diploma in Psychiatric Medicine (D.P.M.)
Diploma in Clinical Pathology (D.C.P.)
Diploma in Public Health (D.P.H)
Diploma in Physical Medicine (D.Phy.M.)
Diploma in Diabetology (D.Diab.)

DESCRIPTION :

The Government General Hospital¸ one of the premier Institutions in the country was started on 16th November 1664 as a small Hospital to treat the sick soldiers of the East India Company. It was the untiring inspired efforts of Sir Edward Winter who was the agent of the company that materialised in the first British Hospital at Madras.

In its early days the Hospital was housed at the Fort St. George and in the next 25 years grew into a formal medical facility. Governor Sir. Elihy Yale was instrumental in the development of the Hospital and gave it a new premises with in the Fort in 1690.

The Hospital moved out of the Fort after the Anglo French War and it took 20 long years before it could settle in the present permanent place in 1772. By the year 1772 the Hospital was training Europeans¸ Eurasians and natives in allopathic methods of diagnosis and treatment and methods of preparing medicines. These trained personnel's were posted to various dispensaries in the district head quarters of the then Madras Presidency to assist the qualified doctors. By 1820 the institution had the recognition as the model hospital of the East India Company. So in 1827 Dr. D.Mortimar was appointed as the Superintendent of the Hospital.