Admissions Open in Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College

In year 1946 on twenty-third June, B. J. Medical College was based to interchange erstwhile B. J. grad College, with Shri. B. G. Kher the top of the metropolis Government, parturition the inspiration stone. This was the fulfilment of the vision of a way keen-sighted religionist presenter Byramjee Jeejeebhoy, to own an establishment in Poona for the coaching of doctors and providing medical facilities on par with those in metropolis. His generosity and largesse created it attainable for the B.J. Medical College to begin acting from 1871 toward land given by him, and once the College was upgraded to the College in 1946, quite fittingly the name was maintained. The medical course of MBBS was related to the University of Poona (Pune) in 1949.

Pune had already been blessed by the generous contribution of Sassoon- a Jewish merchandiser family within the kind of the David Sassoon Hospital (Old Sassoon Building) designed at a price of Rs. 213,000 serving the poor and necessitous from 1867, and therefore the Jacob Sassoon Hospital created by his kinsman in 1905-06 to alleviate the congestion on the David Sassoon Hospital. each was impressive buildings, subject area marvels and therefore the tower of David Sassoon Hospital, a landmark within the town. The field had already been blessed by the presence of 2 nice personalities - Avtar Meher cake was born within the recent ward within the hospital, and therefore the father of the state, Mahatma, Gandhi was operated upon for emergency appendicectomy in 1924 by a British operating surgeon gap. Murdoch with associate Indian anesthetist Dr. Datey attending.