Bhagat Phool Singh Government Medical College 2014 all-women medical college

Bhagat Phool Singh Government Medical College 2014 Sonia inaugurates first all-women medical
college United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi has used the opportunity of inauguration of the first women’s Government Medical College of independent India at Khanpur Kalan on the occasion of International Women’s Day to reiterate the need to take concrete steps to curb crimes against women and promised a law in this regard soon.

Spread over 88 acres, the Bhagat Phool Singh Government Medical College for Women is the first women college of the country since Delhi’s Lady Hardinge Medical College was established in 1914.

The medical college and the hospital have been built in a record time after its foundation stone was laid by Ms. Gandhi on March 1, 2009.

The hospital at the college was started on September 1, 2011, with 100 beds and a team of 21 doctors. It now has 450 beds and 211 doctors.