Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMCH), formerly Himachal Pradesh Medical College, is a

public In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociology, sociological concept of the ''Öf ...

medical college and hospital located in Snowdown area of Lakkar Bazaar,

Shimla Shimla, also known as Simla ( the official name until 1972), is the capital and the largest city of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. In 1864, Shimla was declared the summer capital of British India. After independence, the city ...

Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh (; Sanskrit: ''himācāl prādes;'' "Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a States and union territories of India, state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen Indian Himalayan ...

, India.

History

The college was established in 1966 as the ''Himachal Pradesh Medical College (HPMC)'', and assumed the present name in 1984.On 29 June 2013,

Health minister Kaul Singh Thakur said that Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) would be upgraded on the analogy of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Sewa Yojana, (PMSSY). The minister stated that during his meeting with Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad , the proposal for granting the AIIMS status to IGMC was under consideration of the

government of India The Government of India (ISO 15919, ISO: Bhārata Sarakāra, legally the Union Government or Union of India or the Central Government) is the national authority of the Republic of India, located in South Asia, consisting of States and union t ...

. The minister also added that the endeavour of the state government was to develop IGMC as a prestigious institute so that it can provide qualitative and better health services to the people of the state.

Regional Cancer Centre

The ''Department of Radiotherapy & Oncology'' of this institution is an approved Regional Cancer Centre of

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

. It was founded in 1977 as a ''Tumor Clinic'' of the hospital and was granted the status of RCC in 2001.

Notable alumni

* Dr. Randeep Guleria - Director, AIIMS, New Delhi * Dr. Jagat Ram - Former director, PGIMER, Chandigarh * Arvind Rajwanshi - Director, AIIMS Raebareli

References

{{Coord, 31.1072, 77.1830 , type:edu_region:IN, display=title Education in Shimla Monuments and memorials to Indira Gandhi Research institutes in Himachal Pradesh Medical colleges in Himachal Pradesh Hospitals in Shimla 1966 establishments in Himachal Pradesh