A few days ago, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the 70th anniversary celebrations of the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College (TMC), the oldest such institution in the southern State, which was formally opened in 1951.
The TMC and its hospital wing, which was set up in the same campus three years later in 1954, have a great historical relevance. Together, the facility now is known as the Government Medical College Hospital (MCH), Thiruvananthapuram.
According to records, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, inaugurated both the TMC and its hospital wing. And the historical irony about it is that the person who inaugurated the facility, Mr. Nehru, became its first patient.
