King George Hospital, Visakhapatnam

King martyr Hospital (shortly KGH) (Telugu: కింగ్ జార్జి ఆసుపత్రి) may be a Government General Hospital placed in Visakhapatnam, state, India. The hospital served the requirements of north coastal state and adjacent state for quite one hundred fifty years. Recently there's a proposal to alter the name of KGH (King martyr Hospital) as Karamchand Gandhi Hospital.

It was started as civil clinic in 1845 and upgraded into a thirty bedded hospital in 1857.The hospital's new building was inaugurated by Hon'ble Raja of Panagal, Chief Minister of Madras on July nineteen, 1923[citation needed]. It had 192 beds and by 1931-32 multiplied to 270 beds. These enclosed medical specialty, medicine, Maternity, Venerology and Infectious Diseases. there have been additionally the Out Patient Department, X-ray Department, Kitchen, Operation Theatre and Lecture Hall.

The medical specialty and Maternity block with forty beds was created in 1928. Construction works of the Ophthalmic Block with eighty beds was completed in 1932. The Out Patient (OP) block and Casualty was created in 1940. A Children's ward with thirty six beds was created close in 1943 and later unified with the Gynaec block.

A new body block and also the twin Operation Theatres and special ward was created in 1951. the necessity for enlargement of the hospital gave rise to construction of the Bhavanagar Ward, that was later inaugurated by Shri avatar Kumar Sinhji of Bhavnagar, then Governor of Madras in Gregorian calendar month, 1949.

The 'Rajendra Prasad Ward' was inaugurated by Dr. Rajendra Prasad, then President of Republic of India in August, 1955 and also the 'Amrit Kaur medical specialty Block' was inaugurated by Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, then Union Minister of Health in Gregorian calendar month, 1956.

The new medical specialty Block with Intensive internal organ Care Unit (ICCU) was inaugurated in Gregorian calendar month, 1986 and after, the primary and second floors with the Open surgery Unit.

The 24-hour Clinical laboratory block was restored in 1992. The medical specialty block, the first-of- its-kind within the regime was opened on eight Gregorian calendar month 1993.

The new 'STD Out Patient block' was inaugurated in November, 2000.