Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

Interesting history of Assam Medical College ,Dibrugarh Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh is one of the premier and oldest medical institutes of the NE region of India. British Philanthropist Sir John Berry White, a retired brigadier of British army and later the civil surgeon of the erstwhile Lakhimpur district in 1870, contributed his lifetime earning of Rupees Fifty Thousand (present day valuation is more than 50 million of rupees to establish his brain child “Berry White Medical School” in 1900 AD. This school heralded the beginning of Allopathic Medical Education by conferring LMP Diploma in old undivided Assam. In 1938, the Assam Branch of Licentiate Medical Practitioner in its annual meeting under the chairmanship of Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi, the then premier of the Congress Govt. of Assam decided to upgrade the Berry White Medical School to a full fledged Medical College,   Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh was established in 3rd November 1947, in the erstwhile...

Government Ayurveda Medical College, Mysore Did you know that Government Ayurveda Medical College in Mysore, established in 1908 is the oldest academic institute in India teaching Ayurvedic medicine? The Government Ayurveda Medical College (GAMC) in the heart of Mysore city on the Sayyaji Rao Road, dedicated in imparting Ayurveda studies at Post Graduate (PG) and Under Graduate (UG) level, is the oldest instituion in Ayurvedic medicine which was established in 1908. Prior to establishing this college, the Indigenous Hospital in Mysore City, started in 1892, had both Ayurvedic and Unani branches. The Institution housed in one of most prominet heritage buildings of the city celebrated its Centanary Year in 2008. The college has a 175 bedded hospital attached to it. It is the important health landmark in the city opposite to the Victoria General Hospital.  The purported vision of the College and its attached hospital is: "Providing promotive, preventive, curative, quali...