Photo of kalyani sarkar daughter of nilratan sarkar
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Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital
Medical School and Tertiary care Hospital in Kolkata.
The Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital, also known as NRS Medical College (formerly Campbell Medical College), is a public medical school and hospital in Kolkata, India. It is located in Sealdah, in the heart of Kolkata. The medical college was established on 1 December 1873 as Sealdah Medical School.
History
In 1864, the British government was compelled to open a hospital due to the social and political pressures that arose from epidemics, class struggle, and the Sepoy Mutiny. Considering this urgent need, the decision was made to convert the Sealdah Market Building at Central Hall into what was to be known as the Sealdah Municipal Hospital.
On 1 December of 1873, the Sealdah Medical School was established and underwent several name changes. In 1884, it was renamed the Campbell Medical School and in 1894 became the Campbell Medical College. After gaining independence from British rule in 1947, the college was renamed for the last time in
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Dr. Nilratan Sarkar : a legendary medical scientist
Dr. Niratan Sarkar a versatile medical scientist who has made so much contribution to medical education and Swadeshi enterprise in Colonial Bengal is yet to get a Biographer in the year of his 150th Birth Anniversary. This paper is a humble tribute to his medical genius. M.D and topper in M.SC in physiology of Calcutta University ultimately became its Vice Chancellor he was the founder of Calcutta Medical Club, Indian Medical Association, Calcutta Medical School (Later R.G. Kar Medical College), he also set up the Bengal Immunity Pharma to produce serums and vaccines, and an ultra modern pathological laboratory at his residence with imported machinery and an E.C.G for the first time in Calcutta. His entrepreneurship laid him to establish Swadeshi industries like the National tannery, National Soap Factory, Rangamati Tea Company, Boots and Shoes Company etc. He along with PC Ray and Satyasundar Deb heralded the industrial rejuvenation of Bengal. As a medical researcher, he was a pioneer in t
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Sarkar, Nilratan (1861-1943) was a medical practitioner, philanthropist, an educationist and entrepreneur. His father Nandalal Sarkar came from a poor kayastha family of Jessore and settled later at Joynagar, Khulna. Born on 1 October 1861 at Netra in the district of 24-Parganas, Nilratan passed the Entrance examination in 1876 from the local school and received the vernacular diploma in medicine in 1879 or 1880 from the Campbell medical school. He graduated in 1885 and taught in a school for sometime. He took his MB, MA and MD degrees from the Calcutta University successively in 1888, 1889 and 1890.
In 1888 Nilratan married Nirmala, the daughter of Girishchandra Majumdar, a Brahma missionary of East Bengal and became a Brahma. He started his career as a private practitioner and soon established himself as a successful practitioner and his fees were gradually raised from Rs. 2 to Rs. 64. He showed a keen sense of social compassion by treating poor patients free and providing them generously with food and medicine.
He was the chief organiser of the Calcutta Medical Club, an
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