MKCG Medical College and Hospital
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The Maharaja Krishna Chandra Gajapati Medical College & Hospital, Bramhapur, Ganjam
Ganjam
Ganjam is a town and a notified area committee in Ganjam district in the state of Orissa, India.-Geography:Ganjam is located at . It has an average elevation of 3 metres .-Demographics:...

, Orissa
Orissa
Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...

, also popularly known as MKCG Medical College and Hospital, is a government medical college and hospital which started functioning in 1962 and 1966 respectively, as a medical college. Subsequently, both the Medical College and the attached Hospital were renamed after the Late Maharaja
Maharaja
Mahārāja is a Sanskrit title for a "great king" or "high king". The female equivalent title Maharani denotes either the wife of a Maharaja or, in states where that was customary, a woman ruling in her own right. The widow of a Maharaja is known as a Rajamata...

 of Parlakhemundi, Ganjam
Ganjam
Ganjam is a town and a notified area committee in Ganjam district in the state of Orissa, India.-Geography:Ganjam is located at . It has an average elevation of 3 metres .-Demographics:...

, as the Maharaja Krishna Chandra Gajapati Medical College & Hospital.

Functioning

Operating with 23 Clinical Departments, 8 Non-Clinical & Para-Clinical Departments and with 800 beds, it imparts medical education to 150 Undergraduate Students, 65 Post-graduate Medical Students, 20 Diploma
Diploma
A diploma is a certificate or deed issued by an educational institution, such as a university, that testifies that the recipient has successfully completed a particular course of study or confers an academic degree. In countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia, the word diploma refers to...

 Students in Medical Laboratory Technology and 10 Diploma Students in Medical Radiation Technology,but surprisingly faces very sever shortages of manpower and teaching staff.A tele-medicine unit, provided by the ISRO, is also operational.

This Medical College & Hospital, being the only major medical institution in Southern Orissa
Orissa
Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...

, also serves as a Referral Hospital. A Blood Bank
Blood bank
A blood bank is a cache or bank of blood or blood components, gathered as a result of blood donation, stored and preserved for later use in blood transfusion. The term "blood bank" typically refers to a division of a hospital laboratory where the storage of blood product occurs and where proper...

 is located in a separate building within the medical compound. Recently the building for Regional Diagnostic Centre was completed and it is ready to start functioning with facilities for a variety of sophisticated diagnosis and investigation. The Hospital has also started working on two new separate buildings, dedicated to Trauma Centre and a new, improved, Neurology
Neurology
Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the nervous system. Specifically, it deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of disease involving the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems, including their coverings, blood vessels, and all effector tissue,...

 Department. Within the compound there is a Forensic & Toxicology
Toxicology
Toxicology is a branch of biology, chemistry, and medicine concerned with the study of the adverse effects of chemicals on living organisms...

 Department, and a new, upgraded, mortuary is being built.

Residential quarters are provided inside the campus for the teaching and non-teaching staff of both the College and the Hospital.

This medical college has the largest campus of all three government medical colleges in Orissa, but it lacks fencing to demarcate its entire boundary.

Course timelines

The college administration has been severely criticized for being unable to complete the mbbs courses within the stipulated time frame of four and a half years as per MCI guidelines.Consecutive principals as well as the DMETs ,have been been accused by ex aluminis for being responsible for the academic lapses and not bothering that the curriculum being late by about one full year for all batches since years.

Department of physiology/anatomy/biochemistry /microbiology

While the anatomy department suffers from severe shortages of cardavers
the other mentioned departments are stacked with outdated and obsolete equipment and have been a major source of complaint by students. The lack of pcr and other modern diagnostic tools has been a handicap to these departments.
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