Jhargram Government Medical College and Hospital is a public medical college and teaching hospital located in Jhargram, in the Jhargram district of West Bengal, India. The institution offers undergraduate medical education and provides tertiary healthcare services to the largely tribal and rural population of the Jangalmahal region in south-western West Bengal.
| Type | Government medical college and teaching hospital |
|---|---|
| Location | Jhargram, West Bengal, India |
| District | Jhargram |
| State | West Bengal |
| Sector | Public |
| Owner | Government of West Bengal, Department of Health and Family Welfare |
| Academic programme | MBBS (undergraduate) |
The college is part of the Government of West Bengal's expansion of medical education infrastructure into districts that historically lacked tertiary medical training centres. Jhargram, carved out as a separate district in 2017 from the erstwhile Paschim Medinipur district, is characterised by a substantial Adivasi population and forested terrain. Establishing a medical college in the headquarters town was intended to improve specialist healthcare access in the Jangalmahal belt, which spans parts of Jhargram, Bankura, Purulia and Paschim Medinipur districts.
The teaching hospital functions as the principal referral centre for the district, attached to the medical college for clinical training. It works in coordination with the existing district hospital infrastructure of Jhargram.
The college conducts the MBBS programme, with admissions made through the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) under the counselling process administered by the West Bengal Medical Counselling Committee for state quota seats and the Medical Counselling Committee for all-India quota seats. Like other government medical colleges in West Bengal, it is regulated by the National Medical Commission (NMC), which succeeded the Medical Council of India in 2020.
The attached hospital provides outpatient and inpatient services across core clinical specialities, including general medicine, general surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, anaesthesiology, and emergency care, along with diagnostic departments such as radiology and pathology. It serves as a tertiary care referral facility for patients from Jhargram and adjoining areas.
The institution is significant as one of the medical colleges established in West Bengal's less urbanised districts, contributing to: