Silchar
Medical College
Silchar
Medical
College
is a premier medical institution in the North-East
region. Situated at Ghungoor a suburb of the city of
Silchar
, it has enjoyed a prestigious status in the country
for its brilliant academic performances and excellent care for the
suffering community. Every year it is imparting training for 100 graduates
and more than 30 post-graduates, in various branches of medical science.
Silchar
Medical
College
Hospital
is having all important specialty departments. A large
number of patients visit this institution for advanced treatment not only
from
Barak
Valley
region of
Assam
but also from neighbouring states like Manipur, Tripura, and Mizoram. The
hospital with a capacity of more than 750 beds and over 800 patients are
treated daily in the Out Patient Departments.
This
premier institution was first started in the vacant buildings of the
Govt.
Ayurvedic
College
at Jalukbari, Guwahati with 60 students for
Gauhati
Medical
College
and 40 students for
Silchar
Medical
College
as a twin college in August 1960.
In
1960 Govt. of Assam decided to shift the
Silchar
Medical
College
to Silchar. Site Selection Committee was sent, they selected Ghungoor,
which was the
land
of
Bhorakai T.E.
. 8 K.M .away from Silchar town. But the progress was very slow and
inconspicuous. In 1968, people of Silchar placed the demand to the then
Honourable Health Minister Late Satindra Mohan Dev that
Silchar
Medical
College
should be shifted form Guwahati to Silchar.
Dr.R.Goswami
was sent to Silchar to start the
Medical
College
with two office staff, Shri. D.N. Dutta and ShriA.M.Das Laskar One jeep
was allotted for office. Shri Gajendra Das was its driver.
Previously
office was located at D.H.S. office Shillong (
Assam
). The office was shifted from Shillong to Silchar Circuit House on
10.8.68. The office was shifted from Circuit House to Boy's Hostel NO.1 at
Ghungoor College Campus on 11.9.68. After a few days Sri D.Das joined in
the office. The following grade-IV staff were appointed in the office of
the Special Officer, Shri Jital Uria Bamurah, Sri Phani Bhattacharjee,
Shri Liladhar Sharma, Shri Sudhir Ch. Das, Shri Nalini Kanta Das, Shri
Prabhat Ch.Das and Shri Dakhan Ch. Dey. Shri K. B. Das was appointed the
office Secretary.
The
memorable Foundation Day of Silchar Medical College was held on
15th August 1968
. The function was celebrated under the President ship of the Commissioner
of Cachar and Chief Guest was Honb'le Health Minister S.M.Dev, who
inaugurated the foundation ceremony. Representatives of
Assam
Medical
College
and
Guwahati
Medical
College
attended the function. Fifty students were admitted in Pre-Medical course
in1968 at
G.
C.
College
. Professors and teachers were in Physics, Profs, P. B. Das, S. Sinha and
Shri A. Deshmukhya, in Chemistry, Profs. B. Sinha, D. Talukdar and Shri S.
Dhar, in Botany, Prof. S. Kar and S. K. Deb in Zoology, Prof. A.Bhowmick
and Shri
N. Shyam
, in English Prof. S. Bhattacharjee. There was no Hostel building.
Students had to reside in the Hostel of Govt. Higher Secondary School
Boarding House,
G.
C.
College
and also in rented house. Within this term of Pre-Medical course
preparation of Pre-Clinical and
Para
clinical classes were organized in Ghungoor Students Hostel No. 2. Of the
first batch of Pre-Medical students all of them came out successfully and
scored four top most positions including the First position. Teaching
staff in the Anatomy deptt. were Prof. H. K.Das Biswas, Asstt. Prof. B. C.
Das, teachers Dr. (Ms.) S.Dey, Dr. N. K. Purkayastha, and Dr. B. K. Dey.
In Physiology, Asstt. Prof. P. C. Medhi, took the charge and after a few
months Dr. N. H. Hazarika joined as Professor. Other teaching staff in the
deptt. were Asstt. Prof. A. K. Dasgupta, teachers were Dr. D. Roy, Dr.S.
K. Bhattacharjee, Dr. K. K..Chakarborty, and Dr. M. Shyam. Dr. M. K. Dhar,
Dr. G. C.Barua and Asstt. Prof. N. C. Deka were staff of the Deptt.of
Biochemistry. Prof. P. Goswami of Guwahati and Prof. R.Hussain of
Assam
Medical
College
took some classes in Biochemistry as Visiting Professors. Shri S. K. Kar
and Dr.T. N. Chakraborty were teachers in Chemistry and Prof. B.K. Sinha
of
G.
C.
College
used to take classes in Chemistry. To and fro conveyance from Silchar to
Medical
College
was very meager. No dependable bus communication was set up.
There
were a few teaching staff, who used to come from town by an old Fiat car
of Dr. B. K. Dey. Other clerical staff, most of them resided in the
Hostel. One bus was allotted by the Assam Govt. in November 1971 and our
conveyance problem was reduced. The driver of the bus was Shri Assaddar
Ali and his assistant was Shri Renu Singh. In the vast land of hills and
dales, local people cultivated paddy in some low areas of the campus. Only
two Hostel buildings were bearing the existence of the college in the
green virgin land. My vision was bewitched by the blue hills and soothing
horizon in the midst of the greeneries and lakes. By and by Dr. R. Goswami
became the Principal of the college. We attended the college through a
graveled road which emerged from
Hailakandi Road
near Principal's Bungalow which was being constructed. Principal was
residing in the rooms of the hostel. That road was discarded when new
(present) road was opened. The old approach road was abandoned, where now
the Nurses' hostel stands. The remnant of the old road is still peeping
reminding our past. There was no separate girl's hostel. Girl Students got
their accommodation in one of the blocks of the students’ hostel. Girl's
hostel was constructed in the mid seventies and they were shifted there.
Dr. B. C. Das was Superintendent of the Hostel's. There was no water
treatment plant, a pond near the hostel provided the water to the college.
The operator of the pumping station was Shri Anil Das.
Paraclinical
deptts. were started in the hostel building and Silchar Civil Hospital was
converted for clinical classes in 1971. The construction of the Hospital
building was started in the mid Seventies. Medicine deptt. and deptt. of
Tuberculosis were first removed to the
Assam
type building in the permanent site. Dr. S. R. Bhattacharjee was the first
Medical Registrar of the deptt. In the early part of the eighties all the
clinical deptts. and office were removed to the permanent building. From
July 1970 the clinical and paraclinical staffs were being appointed. In
Medicine: Dr. D. N. Chakraborty as Professor, Dr. A. Swami as Asstt.
Professor, Dr. R. Gupta and Dr. B. K. Das. In Surgery: Dr. A. K. Deshmukh
as Professor, Dr. P. K. Choudhury as Asstt. Professor, Dr. S.K. Nandy
Purkayastha and Dr. I. C. Das. In 0 & G : Dr. R.K. Das as Professor,
Dr. Debidas Dutta and Dr. B. C. Kalita. In Opthalmology : Dr. H. N.
Hazarika as Professor, Dr. S.R. Das as Asstt. Professor, Dr. A. C. Konwar
and Dr. D. C.Baishya. In E. N. T.: Dr. C. Das as Professor, Dr. P.
K.Goswami as Asstt. Professor, and Dr. A. Bhattacharjee. In
Anaesthesiology : Dr. B. K. Sarma as Professor, Dr. R. M.A. Borah as Asstt.
Professor and Dr. (Ms) P. Baruah(Dutta). In Radiology:
Dr.
D.C.
Dowerah and Dr. A. K.Sharma. In Pathology: Dr. I. K. S. M. Baruah as
Professor, Dr. K. K. Dasgupta as Asstt. Professor, Dr. S. K. Bhattacharjee
and Dr. (Ms) S. Devi. In Microbiology: Dr. K. C.Bhuiyan as Asstt,
Professor and Dr. B. R. Bhat!acharjee. In P& S.M : Dr. N. M. I. Rahman
as Professor, Dr. P. N. Biswas and Dr. P. C. Barthakur. In F & SM Dr.
M. N. Das, Civil Surgeon and Dr. J. Bhowal. In Pharmacology: Dr. A.
M.Choudhury as Asst!. Professor and Dr. (MS)
S. Das
(Dutta).In Orthopaedics: Dr. H. Gogoi as Asstt. Professor.After a few
years other departments were started. Dermatology &Venerology: Dr. K.
K. Das as Asst!. Professor, Paediatrics: Prof. S.D.Barua and
Dr.M.K.Chakraborty, Psychiatry: Asst!. Prof. Dr. P. N. Goswami, Dr. S.
Dhar, Dentistry: Dr. D. K. Dey, Tuberculosis &Chest Diseases: Dr. G.
K. Chakraborty, Cardiology: Dr. M. Nath as Asso. Prof. and Dr. D. Deb were
appointed. Sr. Dorothy Kattakakathut was the first Matron of the college.
All are the pioneers of their respective department. Shri B. K. Shyam was
the Medical Record Officer and Shri Jyotirmoy Dutta, Photographer of the
college. Shri Manoj Nandy Mazumdar the first Librarian of the college.
In
long 25 years many a stalwart of Medical arena of
Assam
adorned the chair the Principal. Dr. R. Goswami, founder Principal, Dr. D.
C. Dowerah, Dr. N. Zaman, Dr. D.C. Choudhury, Dr. S. D. Barua, Dr. J.
Mahanta, Dr. B. M.Goswami, Dr. C. Das, Dr. (MS) D. Dutta, Dr. P. C. Barua,
Dr. S. Datta Roy and others. Dr. H. K. Das Biswas was the first Vice
Principal of S. M. C, who joined the Deptt. of Anatomy as Professor in
1968.
The
first batch of final MBBS examinee appeared in 73. The first and third
positions were occupied by Sambhunath Mukherjee and Prasanta Nath
Barbhuiya respectively. In the last 25 years our students topped the list
in 1st, 2nd and Final MBBS examinations and also secured positions in many
of the examinations of
Gauhati
University
. Ms. Bandana Dey is the first lady who graduated from this college.
Post-graduate
course in different subjects are opened and seed of which was planted in
15th Aug'1968 now thrived into a big tree but not a banian tree which is
yet to be achieved. The staff and students took terrible pain, trouble and
had to over come many hurdles to bring the college into the present shape.
They had to go on several occassions for their legitimate demands. The
first annual magazine 'Vishak' was published in 1974 and after a year wall
magazine 'Sreejani' came up. From 1969 to 1974 College was inspected time
to time by University Inspectors and Medical Council of India.
Silchar
Medical
College
was recognised by M.C.I. in 1974.
Silchar
Medical
College
and Hospital was
established in the year 1968. It has been serving the ailing humanity of
the region from the very day of its inception. During the last three
decades it has produced a huge number of brilliant medical graduates who
are discharging their duty to the society with distinction. As such the
Institute has been trying its best to catch up with the advancement in the
field of modern medicine as far as practicable. However we are yet to see
the expected growth to its full potential mainly because of financial
constraints and geographical isolation of this valley from other parts of
the country.
At
the moment the college has the capacity of
100
admissions into the MBBS curse,
25
admissions in P.G. Degree, and
7
admissions in P.G. Diploma courses.
The
bachelor degree (MBBS), MD in General Medicine and Diploma in
ENT
(DLO) were already recognized by the MCI (Medical Council of India) in the
year 1988. Recognition for the degree and diploma courses in all other
specialties were kept pending till last Inspection by the MCI in Feb and
May 2005. They have very recently accorded recognition to the PG courses
in General Surgery, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry and Otolaryngology.
Currently the Institution has 8 Basic science departments and 19 clinical
departments. PG courses in the departments of Radio-diagnosis, Pathology,
Anaesthesiology and Orthopaedic have been permitted by the MCI.
