SCHOOL OF NURSING IPGME&R SSKM HOSPITAL KOLKATA

IPGMER and SSKM Hospital, colloquially known as PGI Kolkata or P.G. Hospital, is a public medical college and tertiary teaching hospital situated in the heart of Kolkata, near the Race Course ground and Victoria Memorial Hall. The hospital traces its origins to 1707, when the first hospital in Calcutta was built within the Old Fort premises, later becoming known as the Presidency General Hospital. In 1954, it was renamed Seth Sukhlal Karnani Memorial Hospital. In 1957, it became the first Post Graduate Medical Institute in Eastern India, inaugurated by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and was named the Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research (IPGMER). The hospital has a long history of medical breakthroughs, including Sir Ronald Ross's Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the malaria parasite cycle. It also holds heritage status and has produced notable medical figures such as Dr. Surendranath Ghosh, the first native Indian doctor appointed there. Undergraduate medical training began in 2004.