Madras General Hospital opens to Indians

1842 · Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital

Once reserved for Europeans, the Madras General Hospital moved to a new H-shaped building and admitted Indians.

Originally the General Hospital at Madras looked after Europeans and the soldiers of the East India Company. In 1814 it was made a Garrison Hospital. The H-shaped main block went up in 1842, the same year Indian patients were first admitted. Its medical school, started in 1835, was raised to the status of Madras Medical College from 1850. Today the institution is called the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital.

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