About the Hospital

The medical college campus houses a 7 storied Academic block; 10 storied each Boys’ and Girls’ hostel, OPD complex, Teaching and non-teaching staff accommodation and a 7 storied Nurses’ accommodation. In addition, the college is a 500 bedded hospital (utilizing the district hospital), catering the clinical material needs of the MBBS students.
The hospital serves to a population of more than 50 lakhs in the district of Purba Medinipur and adjacent districts of Howrah and Paschim Medinipur and deals with the referred cases from other subdivisional and block hospitals in the district ...

The hospital has all the important departments like General Medicine, Pediatrics, General Surgery, Orthopedics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, ENT, Psychiatry, Dermatology etc. Average daily OPD attendance is about 1000 with indoor bed occupancy of more than 85%. All the important surgical interventions like caesarean sections, general surgery and orthopedics are conducted here regularly. The hospital owns a blood bank which has a remarkable achievement in collection, donation and component separation in the state. The hospital also plays an integral role in implementation of national programs in the district.

History and heritage

Tamluk is the district headquarter of Purba Medinipur district. As per the 2011 census, the Tamluk municipal area has a population of 65306. The sex ratio is 963 females per 1,000 males. Purba Medinipur has an average literacy rate of 90.18%, which is higher than the national average of 76.26%.
City of Tamluk has also its glory of past. The name of the college Tamralipto has originated from the ancient history of ‘Tamralipti port’, which was believed to be the exit point of the Mauryan trade route for the south and South-east. In 3rd century BC Samrat Ashoka visited this place ...

Tamralipta was mentioned in early Indian literary works like Kathasaritsagar and Raghubansha, by Greek astronomer-geographer Ptolemy, Roman author and philosopher Pliny, Chinese monk travellers Fa-hien, Hsuan-tsang, Yi Jing.

Matangini Hazra, the famous lady revolutionary, participated in Indian freedom movement like Quit India, Civil Disobedience movement under the banner of Indian National Congress and was shot dead by British police in front of Tamluk police station in 1942 at her 72 years of age. She was born in a village called Hogla near Tamluk.

Worth seeing places in Tamluk is Bargabhima temple, considered as 51 shakti peth of mother Durga where left ankle of Sati fell and the temple has been declared by Heritage Site by West Bengal Govt. The place was also mentioned in Mahabharata, which Bhim acquired. Remnants of Tamluk Rajbari is also a place of historical interest.

Famous sea beaches of West Bengal viz. Digha, Mandarmani and Tajpur are within 100 kms from Tamluk town.