NORTH BENGAL MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL DARJEELING

North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMC&H) is a public medical college and hospital situated in Sushrutanagar, Siliguri, West Bengal, India. Established in 1968 as North Bengal University Medical College, it was the first medical college in northern West Bengal, originally envisioned by Bidhan Chandra Roy and planned by health minister Ajit Kumar Panja. It was renamed North Bengal Medical College & Hospital in 1978, with administrative control passing from the University of North Bengal to the Government of West Bengal and later to the West Bengal University of Health Sciences, to which it has been affiliated since the 2003 admission batch. The college received Medical Council of India recognition in 1978 and introduced postgraduate MD/MS courses in 2004, later recognized by the MCI in 2007. Spread over a 161-acre campus connected by 2.6 km of corridors, it also houses the North Bengal Dental College and a Nursing Training College. The hospital has a bed strength of 1,500 and, since 2021, operates a Virus Research & Diagnostic Laboratory for testing respiratory viruses, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. Undergraduate admission is based on NEET-UG scores, with current intake of 200 students annually.