23/10/2022
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Standing infront of this gate has took a lot of patience hardwork and determination...
After knowing the heritage of this place makes you fall in love with it even more..
So i wanted to share a small part of it with you all!!❤
“Only 89 women were receiving medical education in medical colleges of Madras, Bombay, Calcutta and Lahore at that time. Of these, 73 were Christians and 9 were Parsis or Jews till 1900's.
On March 17, 1914, the foundation stone of the medical college was laid by Lady Hardinge and the college was named Queen Mary College and Hospital after Queen Mary, wife of King George V.
On a visit to India in 1911, King George V announced that the British government would be transferred from Calcutta to Delhi on April 1 the following year. When the then viceroy of India, Baron Charles Hardinge, and his wife Winifred Selina Sturt, Baroness Hardinge of Penshurst, moved to Delhi, she observed that there was no medical college in the city. While men who wanted to pursue medicine went to cities like Agra, Calcutta and Chennai, there were no options for women looking to study medicine.
It was then decided by Lady Hardinge that the capital’s first medical college will be opened in Delhi — and exclusively for women. A 50-acre plot near Shahjahanabad, next to Raisina village, where Rashtrapati Bhawan now stands, was selected for the construction of the hospital.
Lord Hardinge had also said later in his memoirs that the opening of Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital for women was his most satisfying achievement as the Viceroy.
Until the 1980s, only women patients were allowed to be checked in the hospital, but later men were allowed too.
The hospital also remained the only medical college till 1958, after which other medical colleges including Maulana Azad Medical College came up.
