Patna Medical College and Hospital (abbreviated as PMCH) was established in 1925 and originally known as Prince of Wales Medical College, is a medical college located in

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, the state capital of

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. It is located on the southern bank of the river

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and is now affiliated with

Aryabhatta Knowledge University Aryabhatta Knowledge University (AKU Patna) is a collegiate public state university located in Mithapur, Patna, Bihar, India. It was named after the Indian astronomer Aryabhatta. Apart from a few notable exceptions, AKU has authority over techn ...

(previously:

Patna University Patna University is a public state university in Patna, Bihar, India. It was established on 1 October 1917 during the British Raj. It is the first university in Bihar and the seventh oldest university in the Indian subcontinent in the modern er ...

). The exact location is on

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which is also home to other colleges of

. It has more than 1748 beds which is at par with

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. The emergency ward is called IGCE (Indira Gandhi Central Emergency) and has an additional 220 beds. It is one of the busiest hospitals in India. The average daily outpatient load is one of the highest in India.

Campus

Patna Medical College is situated in

. The nearest airport is the

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which is around 10–11 km from the campus. The nearest railway station is the

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around 5 km from the campus. Mithapur Bus Stand is 9–10 km from the campus. Patna Medical College 2000 stamp of India

Upgradation

PMCH is currently being upgraded to be a 5462-bed hospital. This was one of the 37 proposals approved by the cabinet of

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in November 2018. The new PMCH premises will be spread over 72.44 lakh square foot area. The new PMCH will have 250 MBBS seats (against the existing 150 MBBS seats), and 200 PG seats (against the existing 146 PG seats). The Rs 5,540- crore project will be executed by the Bihar Medical Infrastructure Structure Corporation Limited. The new hospital will be linked with the under-construction double-decker flyover along

and

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(Ganga Expressway). The new building will be constructed employing the

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technique that would protect it from earthquakes, equipped with a helipad on its top.

PMCH Metro station

PMCH will soon get Metro connectivity as the upcoming PMCH metro station under

Patna Metro Patna Metro is a rapid transit system currently under construction in the city of Patna in Bihar, India. It will be owned and operated by the state-run Patna Metro Rail Corporation and is expected to run on two corridors by 2027. It is being co ...

Rail Project (PMRP) will pass beneath the hospital premises. PMCH station will be part of the 14.45km long Patna Railway Station - Patliputra ISBT Corridor (Corridor-2) of the

. PMCH metro station will have 4 entry and exit gates, two inside the PMCH campus and the other two towards the opposite side of road on the Ashok Rajpath. A small subway of 30 metre will also be constructed to provide connectivity towards the entry/exit gate on either side. PMCH metro Station having a length of 225 m, is coming partially inside the campus of PMCH and partially inside the campus of Anjuman Islamia Hall. In July 2022, the main gate of Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) on Ashok Rajpath was shut to undertake construction work for metro corridor-2. An old gate that led to the emergency department building on its western side, which was closed several years ago, has been reopened to facilitate the movement of doctors and other staff, patients, attendants, ambulances and general public.

Notable alumni

Dukhan Ram Dukhan Ram (1899–1990) was an Indian ophthalmologist, academic, legislator and the vice chancellor of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University. He was the principal of Patna Medical College, one of the oldest medical colleges in India, an ...

(Padma Bhushan) * B. Mukhopadhyaya (Padma Bhushan) *

Narendra Kumar Pandey Narendra Kumar Pandey is an Indian surgeon, hospital administrator, and founder of the ''Asian Institute of Medical Sciences'', known for his expertise in Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). He was honoured by the Government of India ...

(1974 batch) – Padma Shri (2014) – Chairman and Director of

Asian Institute of Medical Sciences Asian Institute of Medical Sciences is a tertiary care hospital and institute located in Faridabad, India. It was established in 2010 and is accredited by NABH and NABL. The hospital was founded by Padmashri awardee Dr. Narendra Kumar Pandey ...

S. N. Arya Shyam Narayan Arya is an Indian physician, writer and the former National Professor and dean of the College of General practitioners of the Indian Medical Association (IMA_GP). He has published several medical papers and monographs, has contribut ...

(Padma Shri) *

C. P. Thakur Dr Chandreshwar Prasad Thakur or C. P. Thakur (born 3 September 1931) is a former member of Rajya Sabha, a former minister in the Government of India, a physician and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was a cabinet minister from 1999 ...

(former Union Minister) * Gopal Prasad Sinha *

Sunil Shroff Sunil Shroff is the managing trustee of a non-government and non-profit organisation called MOHAN Foundation and is well known for his work in the field of deceased donation transplantation in India. He has worked towards improving the decease ...

* Vijay Prakash Singh (1972 batch)- Padma Shri (2003)

Notable faculty

* Gaya Prasad - Former Lecturer, Professor and Principal of P.M.C.H.

References

External links

PMCH official website
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