Overview of Nepal Medical College (NMC) Kathmandu
Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital (NMCTH) is a major university hospital with 700 beds in Jorpati, Kathmandu, Nepal. It was established in 1997 by the Late Dr Sachey Kumar Pahari, a stalwart in the field of medicine in Nepal and a former Royal Physician. NMC provides medical care, education and also carries out scientific research. NMC also extends their healthcare via their satellite clinics and by conducting various medical camps.
Nepal Medical College (NMC) is situated at Attarkhel of Jorpati Village Development Committee, in Kathmandu, about 11 km. northeast of Kathmandu city. It lies at the foothill of a mound. It has a quiet and tranquil environment, required of a medical college and a teaching hospital. The Gokarna hillock with pine trees is about half a kilometre away on the north, the Gokarna Safari Park across the Bagmati river is about one kilometre in the east, the terraces with trees encircling the NMC campus on the west, the NMC campus which comprises the college and Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital (NMCTH),has access to the main road through its main entrance on the southwest.
The NMC campus houses the academic buildings, library, female-student and male-student hostels and Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital (NMCTH). The college has departments of Clinical Biochemistry, Clinical pharmacology, Clinical Physiology, Community Medicine, Forensic Medicine, Human Anatomy, Medical Microbiology and Pathology that are required for the first two academic years of the MBBS curriculum. The departments of Anesthesiology, Dental, Dermatology, Emergency, Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Otorhinolaryngology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Radiology and Surgery undertake teaching of medical students in their respective wards and outpatients departments during the rest of the period of four and a half year MBBS program in addition to providing health care services to patients from their departments at NMCTH on all working days.
A full-fledged clinical health laboratory, radiology, operation theatres and casualty services, ICU, CCU, NICU, Haemodialysis service, and ambulance service provide round-the-clock health care service. Echocardiography, Holter, TMT, Gastroendoscopy, Colonoscopy, Bronchoscopy, Ultrasonography and Pulmonary Function Test facilities are available on a regular basis. Specific investigations related to Biochemistry, Hematology, Microbiology and Pathology are available at the respective departments that are well-manned and equipped for carrying out academic, research and health services.
Regular microbus services plying on different routes and connect NMC with other parts of the city together with taxis which are available for the transport of patients to and from NMCTH from early dawn to late at night.