Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital modern medicine was brought up in India by the Europeans. With the foundation of the Grant Medical College in Bombay in the year 1845 the 'native citizens' of the presidency were given a chance to study western medicine from some outstanding teachers..
Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital quickly gained a world-wide reputation and its founder-principal, Dr Charles Morehead, was requested to help the University of London in
.....Continuing reading putting together its programme for medical education. Towards the end of the century the old order represented by Sir Robert Grant, Dr Charles Morehead and Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy was replaced by officers of the Indian Medical Service (IMS) who, far from supporting the best talent of the Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, maintained their hold on the esteemed professorial posts. .. Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital present reputation is the result of efforts of countless men and women who gave their best under good circumstances and also during difficult situations. Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital main concerns have been medical relief, medical education and research. The stress by Institute has been on software rather than the hardware, health rather than disease, ethics and equality rather than concern only for a few elite and decentralization and dissemination of services to the unreached rather than centralization of sophistication within the walls of hospital. .. The Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Library was set up in 1926. Over 1300 books transferred from Royal Asiatic Society, now it has grown into collection of over 23,500 Medical Books & 22,000 bound volumes. It receives over 300 periodicals yearly on various Medical subjects. The Department of Cardiology of Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital is placed on the 4th Floor of the Cardiovascular and Thoracic Center. This Cardiovascular and Thoracic Center is placed in a separate small campus opposite to that of the Main building of the KEM Hospital. This center looks after all aspects of cardiology and has a different department of cardiovascular surgery and an academic department of cardiac pathology in the same wing. .. Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital has about 390 staff physicians and 550 resident doctors. The 1800 bedded hospital takes care of about 1.8 million out-patients and 85,000 in-patients per annum and provides both basic care and advanced treatment facilities in all fields of medicine and surgery. Funded mainly by the municipal corporation of greater Mumbai, these institutions give yeomen service - virtually free of cost - mostly to the deprived sections of the society. .. The Department of Nursing of Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital is one of the most essential ones, as its members are concerned with activities of all departments. The total staff strength is about 1300, and many are involved in various committees of the hospital. The School of Nursing, housed in the stately structure of the Nurse's Hostel since its beginning in 1926, mainly undertakes the education of nursing students and trained staff.....Reading in short