According to Prof. Emeritus M.G.
Sahadevan., F.R.C.P. (London), the first medical college of Kerala was
started at Calicut, in 1942-43, during the Second World War. Due to
shortage of doctors to serve the military, the British Government
decided to open a branch of Madras Medical College in Malabar, which was
under Madras Presidency then. The Medical School was started close to
the then district hospital at Kottaparamba ( now Women and Children's
Hospital). The war was over before the medical students completed their
course. After the war, the medical school at Calicut was closed and the
students continued their studies at Madras Medical College. Captain A.B.
Das,(late) a veteran doctor who practised in Calicut belonged to that
batch. Nothing much is known about other students who might have served
in British military.Until recently the building which housed the medical
school was the R.D.O office.The building next to that is the public
health laboratory even now and the buildings beyond those are the
doctor's quarters of W & C Hospital even now.
COURTESY:Dr VARGHESE THOMAS
