The Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) is a government medical college in Delhi affiliated to University of Delhi. It is named after Indian freedom fighter and first education minister of independent India Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. It is located at Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi. MAMC is one of India's premier medical colleges and consistently ranked amongst the top 5 medical colleges in the country.
The college has the following hospitals attached to it:
- Lok Nayak Hospital
- Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital
- Guru Nanak Eye Centre
- Sushruta Trauma Centre
- Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya
The hospitals have a combined bed strength of more than 2400 beds (with further expansion underway) and cater to a population of more than 20 million people in Delhi alone and many more from the surrounding states in north India. The college is a tertiary care referral centre and has teaching programs for graduation/medical school, post graduation/residency and subspecialities/fellowships (referred to as superspecialities in India).
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