KUMUDINI MEDICAL COLLEGE

BACKGROUND:
Danobir R. P Shaha is an institution in himself. He was a founder, doner and patronizer of lots of hospitals and educational institutions in the country and abroad. Vast majority of population live in the rural areas were deprived from health care and education. In order to provide basic health care delivery system to the poor. Kumudini Hospital started its journey with 20 beded hospital in 1938 at Mirzapur. Over the years with gradual and systematic process of development, it has turned in to an imposing prestigious 750 bed hospital in the subcontinent and has been recognized as a centre of excellence of medical services in the field of Oncology and Neurosurgery.

Since the abduction of the great man and his only son in 1971, the hospital passed through many critical period. But uncompromising spirit, drive leadership and sincerity of the members of KWT, and with help of the locality, K.H. continued to serve the common people.

Till now the K.H. is the biggest general hospital in the private sector, fully equipped 750 bed hospital with Medical, Surgical, Gynae & Obs, Eye, ENT, Pediatrics, Dentistry, Maternity and Child health, Tuberculosis, Diarrhoeal Diseases with necessary diagnostic support and offering round the clock services including emergency and OPD.

KWT felt the need of motivated, qualified medical personnel missioned to promote the name and fame and to fulfill the mission of the founder for which the hospital was established.

Because of its uniqueness and ideal location and glorious background K.H. having the excellent infrastructural and institutional support to establish a Medical College. Eventually on the 4th June, 2001 KMC came into being, the long cherished dream of one man R. P. Shaha came true.

OBJECTIVES:
The main objectives of KMC are to materialize the dream of the founder of the trust.
Interalia there are following:
(i) to allow a large number of students for availing the opportunity to become medical
graduates;
(ii) to contribute towards filling in the shortage of doctors for the country;
(iii) to provide quality education within affordable means;
(iv) to maintain a sustainable standard of education that will attract students who
eventually will find it a better place for medical education;
(v) to provide more practical knowledge about the basic health care for the community; and
(vi) to inculcate the spirit of dedication in medical students so that they devote themselves to the service of the country's distressed people.

LOCATION :
Kumudini Medical College is located in kumudini complex at Mirzapur of Tangail district, only 60 km north from the capital city, Dhaka, has regular road and rail communications services. The journey takes about 1.20 hrs to reach there.

FACILITIES AVAILABLE:
COLLEGE:
Kumudini Medical College has ad-equate facilities to teach the students with its spacious Lecture halls, well equipped laboratories, tutorial rooms for small group discussion and well spacious dissection half library, student's common room, canteen, fair price shop and telephone booth.

It Includes:
1. Lecture halls - 2 (two) with microphone system, OHP, slide projector and blackboard.
2. Tutorial rooms - 6 (six) each department has got one or two rooms.
3. Laboratories - 9 (nine) Histology -1, Physiology -1, Biochemistry -1, Pharmacology - 2, Pathology -2, Microbiology - 2, Provide with necessary equipments, microscopes, histology slides, glass wares and reagents.
4. Dissection Hall - 1 (one) Providing arrangements of dissection on four cadaver at a time. It has also space for demonstration of 75 students divided in to three groups in four corners.
5 .Museum - 4 (four) Anatomy -1, Pathology -1, Community Medicine -1, Forensic Medicine -1 Contains ad-equate numbers of specimen, chart and models.
6. Medical Education Unit
7. Library.