Gandhi Hospital

Gandhi hospital began as an infirmary with three wards in 1851AD and these were general, maternity and pauper houses. It was known as cantonment hospital and also as civil hospital with 95 beds at the beginning of 20th century. The hospital was developed with funds from the philanthropists and was named K.E.M.hospital in memory of King Edward VII. S.M.Fraser who was the British resident opened the hospital on 20th December 1917 AD.

The architect and engineer of new building complex with beautiful staircase was F.M.B. Rosenthal. KEM had peculiar sounding wards such as Female Ward for Parsis, Caste Female Wards and European Ward and so on. KEM was renamed as Gandhi hospital in 1958 AD to become the teaching hospital for the college. In 1956 the bed strength of the hospital was 310 which was raised to 400 by the year 1961.

There was very efficient nursing services rendered by the renowned mothers and nuns of Roman Catholic mission. These nurses regarded the services as a part of the religious duty. In the beginning the lecture hall was close to the railway line with the noise from shunting of passenger coaches and goods wagons. The sirens of incoming and out going trains were another noise that the students of earlier batches remember. Over the years it developed into a 1012-bedded teaching hospital.

Hospital has been shifted into new premises at Musheerabad this year. Average annual outpatient consultations are about 80000 and inpatient admissions are about 42000.11000 major operations and about 15000 minor operations are performed each year at Gandhi hospital. Hospital has 27 departments namely: general medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, orthopedics, anesthesia, dermatology, leprosy, sexually transmitted disease, ophthalmology, E.N.T., radiology, Casuality, blood bank, cardiology, neurology, nephrology, gastroenterology, endocrinology, Cardio-thoracic surgery, neurosurgery, pediatric surgery, plastic surgery, urology, TB clinic, dental, obgyn, psychiatry and hospital administration. The year in which the some departments started were as follows:

1960 : ENT, General surgery orthopedic surgery.
1968 : Cardiology.
1969 : Cardio-thoracic surgery.
1971 : Neurosurgery.
1975 : ICCU.1976: mobile iccu, pediatric surgery, neurology, MCh neurosurgery.
1977 : Cardiac catheter lab.
1979 : Urology.
1985 : Gastroenterology.
1991 : MCh cardio-thoracic surgery.
1993 : Plastic surgery and nephrology.
1998 : Psychiatry.