Gandhi Medical College

Gandhi Medical College, is a medical college in Hyderabad, India. It is under the gamut of NTR University of Health Sciences. The college was originally affiliated to the Osmania University of Hyderabad, Telangana, India.HistoryGandhi Medical College, originally named People's Medical College, was founded 14 September 1954. It was located at Humayun nagar close to the present-day Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital. It was opened because the original medical college in the area, Osmania Medical College, was unable to keep up with the demands for physicians in the State. Dr. Syed Nizamuddin Ahmed was the first Principal and the founder of the college.Officially it was inaugurated On 25 June 1955 by the first president of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad.By 1956, the college was in financial trouble, and the government of Hyderabad agreed to take over the college and develop it.In 1958, the college was moved to Basheer bagh. The old building has since been demolished. In 2003, the college moved to its new premises in Musheerabad. The new facility, along with a hospital, was constructed on the area that formerly housed the Musheerabad Jail.