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Maulana
Azad Medical College and associated hospital complex consist
of four integral units, names Maulana Azad Medical College,
Lok Nayak Hospital, Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital and Guru
Nanak Eye Centre. The college was established twenty two
years after the commissioning of Irwin Hospital, a well
established general hospital drawing patients mainly from
Delhi and from the neighboring states of Punjab, Haryana,
Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan.
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This
ideally situated general hospital with long years of reputation
paved the way for realization of this medical college.
The college made its humble beginning in hospital block of Irwin
(Lok Nayak) hospital 1958. The foundation of main building of
the college was laid by Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant, the then
Home Minister of India, on 24th October, 1959. this building
was declared open by the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit
Jawahar Lal Nehru on 26th February, 1961.
In
1964, Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital was added to the complex
to provide training facilities and super-specialties. The
Guru Nanak Eye Centre came into existence on 20th December,
1977 with the commissioning of a separate out patient department
for ophthalmic diseases. The wards for the indoor patients
were added in 1986. The long awaited demand of the residents
of Union Territory of Delhi for a Dental wing was met with
the establishment of a separate Dental Wing in 1983. This
wing has become fully established Dental College since 2003.
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