Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS) is a medical institution and hospital on
Sarat Bose Road
Sarat Bose Road, previously known as Lansdowne Road, is a 3.5 km long stretch of road that connects Southern Avenue (near Rabindra Sarobar Stadium) with AJC Bose Road (at Minto Park) and separates two major localities of Ballygunge and B ...
,
Kolkata
Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
, which functions under the
Ramakrishna Math
Ramakrishna Math is the administrative legal organization of the Ramakrishna Order, considered part of the Hindu reform movements. It was set up by sanyasin disciples of Ramakrishna Paramhansa headed by Swami Vivekananda at Baranagar Math in Bar ...
and
Ramakrishna Mission
Ramakrishna Mission (RKM) is a Hindu religious and spiritual organisation which forms the core of a worldwide spiritual movement known as the ''Ramakrishna Movement'' or the ''Vedanta Movement''. The mission is named after and inspired by th ...
. It started in July 1932 as ''Shishumangal Pratishthan'', a maternity and child welfare clinic by Swami Dayanand, a disciple of
Sarada Devi.
[
Swami Dayananda (born Vimal) was younger brother of Swami Madhavananda, the ninth President of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission (1962–1965).]
References
External links
Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan, Official website
West Bengal University of Health Sciences
Ramakrishna Mission
Hospitals in Kolkata
Organisations based in Kolkata
Education in Kolkata
Medical colleges in West Bengal
Health charities in India
Nursing schools in India
1932 establishments in India
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