About the department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

The department of Obstetrics & Gynecology was started in 1949 with Dr. R. G. Krishnan as Professor and Dr. U. C. Bordoloi as Asst Professor. During the first 6 years the department was housed in the Berry White Medical School campus.   The department was shifted to the present campus in the year of 1954. The present two storied building became ready for use in 1959. The building provides space for 200 patients, six cabins, two labor rooms, two operation theatres, a lecture hall, 2 seminar halls, one museum, a sick baby clinic unit and an O.P.D  complex. The department is also running a Family Planning unit  with Post Graduate training facilities.

Initially the department  offered only undergraduate teaching . When Prof. U. P. Gupta became the head  he tried hard for opening of Post Graduate courses. Post graduate degree and diploma courses in Obstetrics and Gynecology started thereafter and the first batches qualified in 1967 - 1968.

Till now more than hundred post graduate have been produced from this department who are rendering services in this specialty all over India  and abroad. Many research papers have been published in various journals.