Patna Medical College and Hospital

Patna Medical College and Hospital (abbreviated PMCH) established in 1925 and originally known as Prince of Wales Medical College, is a medical college located in Patna, the state capital of Bihar, India. It is located on the southern bank of the river Ganges and is now affiliated to Aryabhatta Knowledge University (previously: Patna University). The exact location is on Ashok Rajpath which is home to many other notable colleges of Patna University. The college was a premier center for imparting medial education in pre-independence era, producing doctors such as Dr. Banerjee, Dr. Dukhan Ram, Dr. B. Mukhopadhyaya etc.The college handles one of the biggest patient loads around the globe and the variety of Patients you get to see here is unparalleled across India. Many interns of different medical colleges prefer to do their internship from the hospital here. It boasts of more than 1700 beds which is at par with AIIMS. The college has many firsts to its credit, and the ever-expanding website of the Department of Community Medicine here is one such venture in the new era of the technology revolution. The emergency dept.is called IGCE(Indira Gandhi Central Emergency),it has 220 beds which is separate building in the campus and not included in the 1700 bed counts of hospital,so altogether it is one of the busiest hospital of state and in India with bed count of around 2000.The average daily opd patients is one of the highest in India(Safdurjung hospital,Newdelhi,having the highest)