Barasat Government Medical College and Hospital is a government medical college and teaching hospital in India, located at Barasat in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. It is among the medical colleges established by the Government of West Bengal to expand undergraduate medical education and tertiary healthcare services in the state, and is attached to the existing district hospital infrastructure at Barasat.
| Name | Barasat Government Medical College and Hospital |
|---|---|
| Type | Government medical college and hospital |
| Location | Barasat, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India |
| Owner | Government of West Bengal |
| Affiliated teaching hospital | Barasat District Hospital campus |
Barasat is the headquarters of the North 24 Parganas district and serves a large catchment population in the northern suburbs of Kolkata and adjoining rural areas. The district hospital at Barasat has historically been a major referral centre for the region. The conversion and upgrade of such district hospitals into medical college campuses has been part of a wider policy by the Government of West Bengal and the Government of India to increase the number of MBBS seats and to strengthen tertiary care outside the metropolitan core of Kolkata.
The institution functions as an undergraduate teaching hospital offering the MBBS course. Admissions to the MBBS programme in India are conducted through the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG), with state-quota seats allotted through the West Bengal counselling process conducted by the West Bengal Medical Counselling Committee. Medical education in India is regulated by the National Medical Commission (NMC), which succeeded the Medical Council of India in 2020.
As a teaching hospital attached to a medical college, the institution provides outpatient, inpatient, emergency, and tertiary care services across core clinical departments typically associated with a government medical college, including general medicine, general surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, anaesthesiology, radiology, and pathology, alongside preclinical and paraclinical departments such as anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, microbiology, forensic medicine, and community medicine.
The medical college contributes to expanding the medical workforce trained within West Bengal and improves access to tertiary healthcare for residents of North 24 Parganas, who previously relied largely on Kolkata-based institutions such as the Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, and the Calcutta National Medical College. By integrating teaching with the Barasat District Hospital, it also strengthens secondary and tertiary services available locally.