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The PGIMER
owes its inception to the vision of late Sardar Partap Singh Kairon, the
then Chief Minister of Punjab and the distinguished medical
educationists of the then combined state of Punjab, supported by the
first Prime Minister of India Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru who considered the
institutions of scientific knowledge as temples of learning and the
places of pilgrimage. 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. 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.
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Provide high quality patient care.
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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.
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Provide educational facilities for
the training of personnel in all-important branches of health
activity.
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Undertake basic community based
research.
The founders of this Institute Prof. Tulsi Das, Prof. Santokh Singh
Anand, Prof. PN Chuttani, Prof. BN Aikat, Prof. Sant Ram Dhall and
Prof. Bala Krishna laid the path of excellence for the Institute.
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Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research
Sector-12, Chandigarh PIN- 160 012, INDIA.
Phone: EPBAX:
0091-172-2747589-91, 2747585
Fax: 0091-172-2744401, 2745078
Email: pgimer-chd@nic.in
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