# West Bengal University of Health Sciences

West Bengal University of Health Sciences (WBUHS) is a Public medical university in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was established in 2003 by an Act of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly for better management of the health and medical education-related courses. The main objective behind the establishment of the university was to raise the level of medical education across the state of West Bengal

## History

Before the establishment of the West Bengal University of Health Sciences (WBUHS), undergraduate and postgraduate level medical teaching in different state medical colleges of West Bengal was supervised by various state universities. This caused a huge disparity between different state medical colleges of West Bengal in terms of teaching and learning process, nature and standards of the evaluation, and most significantly; the recognition of the graduates from the different universities. So all the stakeholders of medical education in the state felt the need for bringing parity in the medical education system.
Under these compelling circumstances, the West Bengal University of Health Sciences (WBUHS) was established under an Act of the West Bengal legislature. Finally, it became active on 1 January 2003; which is considered as the date of birth for this embodiment of higher education in the fields of medical sciences in the state.

## Organisation and administration
### Governance

The Governor of West Bengal is the Chancellor of the WBUHS. The Vice-Chancellor of the West Bengal University of Health Sciences is the chief executive officer of the university.

### Affiliations

The West Bengal University of Health Science is an affiliating university and has jurisdiction over all the medical, AYUSH, paramedical & allied health sciences, dental, nursing & pharmacy colleges of the entire state of West Bengal.Though some private med schools running under private university affiliation still it has 124 affiliated institutions under its umbrella as of now.

## Ranking and accreditation

In September 2017, West Bengal University of Health Sciences was recognized by the UGC, under section 12-B of the UGC Act, 1956.

## Affiliated Pharmacy Colleges

| S.No | College Name | Location | District | Establishment Year | No. Of Seats(B.Pharm) | Stream |
| 1 | Haldia Institute of Pharmacy | Haldia | Purba Medinipur | 2018 | 100 | Pharmacy |
| 2 | Institute of Pharmacy, Jalpaiguri | Jalpaiguri | Jalpaiguri | 2003(since B.Pharm started offering) | 60 | Pharmacy |

## Affiliated private medical colleges

| S.No | College name | Location | District | Established year | No. of Seats (MBBS) | Stream |
| 1 | KPC Medical College and Hospital | Jadavpur | Kolkata | 2006 | 150 | Allopathy |
| 2 | ICARE Institute of Medical Sciences and Research | Haldia | Purba Medinipur | 2011 | 150 | Allopathy |
| 3 | Shri Ramkrishna Institute of Medical Sciences and Sanaka Hospital | Durgapur | Paschim Bardhaman | 2015 | 200 | Allopathy |
| 4 | Gouri Devi Institute of Medical Sciences and Hospital | Durgapur | Paschim Bardhaman | 2016 | 150 | Allopathy |
| 5 | IQ City Medical College | Durgapur | Paschim Bardhaman | 2016 | 150 | Allopathy |
| 6 | Jagannath Gupta Institute of Medical Sciences and Hospital | Budge Budge | South 24 Parganas | 2016 | 150 | Allopathy |
| 7 | Santiniketan Medical College | Santiniketan | Birbhum | 2021 | 150 | Allopathy |
| 8 | JMN Medical College and Hospital | Chakdaha | Nadia | 2023 | 150 | Allopathy |
| 9 | Krishnanagar Institute of Medical Sciences | Krishnanagar | Nadia | 2024 | 100 | Allopathy |
| 10 | PKG Medical College and Hospital | New Town | North 24 Parganas | 2024 | 100 | Allopathy |
| 11 | East West Institute of Medical Sciences and Research | Burdwan | Purba Bardhaman | 2024 | 50 | Allopathy |
| 12 | Jakir Hossain Medical College and Research Institute | Jangipur | Murshidabad | 2024 | 50 | Allopathy |

## Government Medical Colleges (Allopathy)

| S.No | College name | Location | District | Established year | No. of Seats (MBBS) | Stream |
| 1 | IPGMER and SSKM Hospital | Kolkata | Kolkata | 1707 | 200 | Allopathy |
| 2 | Medical College and Hospital | College Street | Kolkata | 1835 | 250 | Allopathy |
| 3 | Nil Ratan Sarkar Medical College and Hospital | Sealdah | Kolkata | 1873 | 250 | Allopathy |
| 4 | R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital | Shyambazar | Kolkata | 1886 | 250 | Allopathy |
| 5 | Calcutta National Medical College | Beniapukur | Kolkata | 1948 | 250 | Allopathy |
| 6 | Bankura Sammilani Medical College and Hospital | Bankura | Bankura | 1956 | 200 | Allopathy |
| 7 | North Bengal Medical College and Hospital | Siliguri | Darjeeling | 1968 | 200 | Allopathy |
| 8 | Burdwan Medical College | Burdwan | Purba Bardhaman | 1969 | 200 | Allopathy |
| 9 | Midnapore Medical College and Hospital | Midnapore | Paschim Medinipur | 2004 | 200 | Allopathy |
| 10 | College Of Medicine & JNM Hospital | Kalyani | Nadia | 2009 | 125 | Allopathy |
| 11 | College of Medicine & Sagore Dutta Hospital | Kamarhati | North 24 Parganas | 2010 | 125 | Allopathy |
| 12 | Malda Medical College and Hospital | Malda | Malda | 2011 | 125 | Allopathy |
| 13 | Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital | Berhampore | Murshidabad | 2012 | 125 | Allopathy |
| 14 | ESIC Medical College | Joka | Kolkata | 2013 | 125 | Allopathy |
| 15 | Maharaja Jitendra Narayan Medical College and Hospital | Coochbehar | Coochbehar | 2019 | 100 | Allopathy |
| 16 | Diamond Harbour Government Medical College and Hospital | Diamond Harbour | South 24 Parganas | 2019 | 100 | Allopathy |
| 17 | Raiganj Government Medical College and Hospital | Raiganj | Uttar Dinajpur | 2019 | 100 | Allopathy |
| 18 | Rampurhat Government Medical College and Hospital | Rampurhat | Birbhum | 2019 | 100 | Allopathy |
| 19 | Deben Mahata Government Medical College and Hospital | Purulia | Purulia | 2020 | 100 | Allopathy |
| 20 | Barasat Government Medical College and Hospital | Barasat | North 24 Parganas | 2022 | 100 | Allopathy |
| 21 | Jalpaiguri Government Medical College and Hospital | Jalpaiguri | Jalpaiguri | 2022 | 100 | Allopathy |
| 22 | Jhargram Government Medical College and Hospital | Jhargram | Jhargram | 2022 | 100 | Allopathy |
| 23 | Prafulla Chandra Sen Government Medical College and Hospital | Arambagh | Hooghly | 2022 | 100 | Allopathy |
| 24 | Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Government Medical College and Hospital | Uluberia | Howrah | 2022 | 100 | Allopathy |
| 25 | Tamralipto Government Medical College and Hospital | Tamluk | Purba Medinipur | 2022 | 100 | Allopathy |