MKCG Medical College and Hospital, ORISSA

MKCG Medical College and Hospital

The Maharaja Krishna Chandra Gajapati Medical College & Hospital, Bramhapur, Ganjam, Odisha, also popularly known as MKCG Medical College and Hospital, is a government medical college and hospital which started functioning in 1962 as a medical college and 1966 as a hospital. Subsequently, both the Medical College and the attached Hospital were renamed after the Late Maharaja of Parlakhemundi, Ganjam, Krushna Chandra Gajapati, as the Maharaja Krishna Chandra Gajapati Medical College & Hospital.

It operates with 23 Clinical Departments, 8 Non-Clinical and Para-Clinical Departments and with 800 beds. A tele-medicine unit, provided by the ISRO, is also operational. It imparts medical education to 150 undergraduate students, 65 post-graduate medical students, 20 diploma students in Medical Laboratory Technology and 10 diploma students in Medical Radiation Technology. Surprisingly it faces very sever shortages of manpower and teaching staff.

This Medical College and Hospital, being the only major medical institution in Southern Odisha, also serves as a referral hospital. A blood bank 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 Department. Within the compound there is a Forensic and Toxicology Department, and a new, upgraded, mortuary and a new forensic and toxicology building, in addition to this there is a new orthopaedics building, a new paediatrics building and a new medicine building has been 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 Odisha.

The college offers the four and half year MBBS course with one year compulsory rotating internship in affiliated hospitals to a maximum of 150 students per year. Admission to this college in MBBS course is extremely competitive and strictly on the basis of merit. Out of 150, 22 seats are filled through All India Pre-medical Test (AIPMT) conducted by the CBSE and the remaining 128 seats are filled through the Odisha JEE held every year. Only 0.2% of applicants for the MBBS course are accepted.

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