Teaching Hospitals
Osmania Medical college has long been a government institution in Andhra Pradesh. It is the oldest medical school in India and perhaps Asia. The concept of Osmania Medical College dates back to 1595 AD, then called as Dar-Ul-Shifa in Hyderabad, making it the oldest medical school.
Osmania has a rich history of pioneering medical innovations. For the first time, chloroform was used as an anesthetic in Osmania. The causative agent of malaria was elucidated by Sir Ronald Ross who has been immortalised by the Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Tropical and Communicable Diseases (popular by name Fever Hospital) affiliated to Osmania.
The medium of instruction was initially Urdu (the degree was Hakeem) and later changed to English. In 1846, Hyderabad Medical School was established. An article about the 150 years (1846–1996)of Osmania Medical College was published in Bulletin of The Indian Institute of History of Medicine, and featured in Pubmed. It recently celebrated Platinum Jubilee. .
Osmania is the only medical college in India where each medical speciality has a separate training hospital. It is also the only medical college in south India to offer a postgraduate course in endocrinology.
The following hospitals fulfill the role of teaching hospitals for Osmania Medical College.
1. Osmania General Hospital - a multi speciality Tertiary-care hospital with advanced training in every sub-speciality of Medicine, Surgery, Radiology, Anesthesiology, Orthopedic surgery, Neurosurgery, Neurology. This hospital has approximately 3800 beds, with patients overfilling the beds and wards. It has one of the busiest Out-Patient clinics in all specialities in India, particularly on Monday mornings.
2. Government Maternity Hospital, Sultan Bazaar Hospital - a tertiary care hospital for Obstetrics and Gynecology.
3. Niloufer Hospital - a TERTIARY care hospital for Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Neonatology, maternal-fetal Medicine. It is one of the largest Hospitals of its kind in Asia, with advanced training in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Pediatrics.
4. Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Tropical and Communicable Diseases - Dr. Ross elucidated the life cycle of malarial parasite at a place near Begumpet Airport, where a Building exists today in his Name. In his honour, The Quarantine hospital was rechristened Sir Ronald Ross Institute. (He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for this work)
5. Modern Government Maternity Hospital, Petlaburz - a tertiary care Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital
6. Mehdi Nawaz Jung Institute of Oncology.
7. Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital - TERTIARY care ophthalmological institute with advanced training in Ophthalmology
8. Government E. N. T. Hospital - TERTIARY care hospital for ENT disorders. It is the largest ENT hospital in Asia.
9. Institute of Mental Health, Erragadda
10. Government Chest Hospital - a TERTIARY care hospital for all kinds of lung disorders, especially tuberculosis and Pott's Disease of the spine.
11. Rural Health Centre, Patancheru - Osmania is one of the only two medical colleges in India with a rural health centre attached to it.
12. Outreach hospitals surrounding Hyderabad.
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