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"Bangalore has become the centre of attraction primarily because of the large number of top hospitals in the city and the innumerable medical institutes and colleges"

Sri. K H Gopalakrishne Gowda IAS,

Principal Secretary to Government

Dept. of Medical Education

The mission of the Department of Medical Education is to ensure quality medical education and research while facilitating tertiary healthcare at remote regions of the state.

The government has established several autonomous Medical/ Dental/ Nursing Colleges & Research Institutes across Karnataka in cities such as Bangalore, Mysore, Bellary, Belgaum, Shimoga, Hubli, Bidar and Raichur amongst others.

The State has 17 teaching hospitals and seven major autonomous Healthcare Institutes, prime amongst them being the Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology, NIMHANS, and the Sanjay Gandhi Accident Hospital & Research Institute.

Achievements of the department include the establishing of a Common Entrance Test Cell to facilitate centralized student counseling for both graduated and post-graduate degrees in all disciplines of medicine.

Future plans will see the commencement of new super specialty courses such as Vascular Surgery, Pediatric Surgery, Immuno-Hematology and PG course in Biomedical Engineering, Emergency Medicine and Clinical Research, to name only a few.

A helping hand to doctors:

Sanction of Rs. 7000/- Rural Allowance, Rs. 3000/- Emergency Allowance, Rs. 10000/- Super Specialty Allowances and Rs. 5000/- Special Allowance.

Monthly salary of house surgeons in Government hospitals enhanced to Rs. 6000/- for MBBS and Rs. 11000/- for PGs

Rural/ Contract services rendered by doctors reckoned for PG courses.

Allotment of MD, MS, MCH seats enhance from 398 to 558 in Government colleges.

Appointment of 450 Medical Teaching Staff and 750 Non-teaching staff underway

Establishing of state-of-the-art laboratories and Radiological Research Centers with corporate participation

Doctor's Day is celebrated on 1st July every year, commemorating the birthday of the renowned Indian physician Dr B C Roy who also made his mark as on educationist and a freedom fighter honored with the Bharat Ratna.

Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital is a multispeciality hospital, located in the heart of Bangalore City, at Shivajinagar. The hospital is over 100 years old, approx 2 kms towards east of Vidhana Soudha. The architecture of the buildings are of modern as well as that of the yester years. Bowring Hospital was established in 1867 for men and Lady Curzon Hospital was established in 1890 for women and children.

The foundation stone of Victoria Hospital, the century old premier Medical Institutions of India was laid on 22nd June 1897 by her highness Kempananjammani avaru, the then maharani regent of Mysore to commemorate the completion of 60 years of reign of Queen Victoria. The Hospital was then formally inaugurated on 8th December 1900 by Lord Curzon the then Viceroy of India.