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According
to Prof. Emeritus M.G. Sahadevan., F.R.C.P. (London), the first
medical college of Kerala was started at Calicut, in 1942-43,
during the Second World War. Due to shortage of doctors to serve
the military, the British Government decided to open a branch of
Madras Medical College in Malabar, which was under Madras
Presidency then. The Medical School was started close to the
then district hospital at Kottaparamba ( now Women and
Children's Hospital). The war was over before the medical
students completed their course. After the war, the medical
school at Calicut was closed and the students continued their
studies at Madras Medical College. Captain A.B. Das,(late) a
veteran doctor who practised in Calicut belonged to that batch.
Nothing much is known about other students who might have served
in British military.Until recently the building which housed the
medical school was the R.D.O office.The building next to that is
the public health laboratory even now and the buildings beyond
those are the doctor's quarters of W & C Hospital even now.
COURTESY:Dr VARGHESE
THOMAS
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