Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER)
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) is a premier medical institute of India located in Chandigarh. PGIMER was conceived in 1960 as a center of excellence which would Endeavour to develop patterns of teaching in postgraduate medical education in as many branches as possible and attempt to produce specialists in several disciplines of medicine.
The institute started in 1962 and Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru inaugurated the hospital now named “Nehru Hospital” on 7th July 1963. The Institute was originally under the Government of undivided Punjab. After the reorganization of the state, the administrative control of the institute passed on to the Union Territory of Chandigarh in November 1966.
It was also envisaged that these specialists would spread out in the country in various medical colleges and medical institutions and impart medical education of highest standard to the students and set up nucleus of excellence in their own institutions. The PGIMER was also given the responsibility to broaden the horizons of medical knowledge by intensive research in the field of health.
The Institute became an autonomous body under the Act of Parliament in 1967 functioning under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, with the following mandate.
i. Provide high quality patient care.
ii. Attain self-sufficiency in postgraduate medical education and to meet the country’s need for highly qualified medical teachers in all medical and surgical fields.
iii. Provide educational facilities for the training of personnel in all-important branches of health activity.
iv. Undertake basic community based research.
The Institute is continuing to achieve the objective of service to the community, care of the needy and research for the good of all. The Institute has shown the way to the entire nation in the sphere of health care and medical training. Since 2008 the Institute has been an official supporting organisation of HIFA2015 (Healthcare Information For All by 2015), a global initiative to improve availability and use of reliable healthcare information in low- and middle-income countries.
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