TN Veterinary University

In recognition of the expanding demand for doctors to treat and study livestock and poultry 🐓, the madras Veterinary college was begun as early as 1876. It was then known as the agricultural school 🌾 and offered a diploma and certificate course in the field of veterinary and animal sciences.
The institute attained the status of a college in the year 1903 (01.10.1903), when it started functioning at Dobbin Hall, Madras and admitted 20 students for a three-year diploma course called Graduate 🎓 of Madras Veterinary College.

Although the college was the fourth veterinary institution to be started in India, it was first veterinary college in the country to be affiliated to University of Madras in 1935. In 1969, the college was made as the Directorate of Veterinary Education and Research. The college was then academically affiliated to Tamilnadu Agricultural University 🏤 (TNAU) in 1974 and became a constituent unit of TNAU in 1976. 

Source: tanuvas.tn.nic.in

Madras Medical College

Madras has been the pioneer in India for many fields and it was also the go to healthcare destination even while under the British rule. Way back in 1664, the first British hospital in India was set up at Fort St. George, to minister to sick soldiers of the East India Company. It was the initiative of Sir Edward Winter who was an agent of the company that materialised in the first British Hospital at Madras. The Hospital moved out of the Fort after the Anglo French War and it took 20 long years before it could settle in the present permanent place in 1772.
A private medical hall run by Dr. Mortimar was regularised as a medical school and it was opened by, the Governor of Madras on 2nd February 1835. In 1842 the Hospital opened its doors to Indians. It was only in the 1850’s that the school got its status as a college. The Government granted this request and from 1st October 1850 it became Madras Medical College.

Chennai today thrives as an international Hub for Medical tourism and also manages a robust state wide health care system.🚑 And in a way we owe it to those humble beginnings laid by such visionaries. Today even they would put down their heads in shame, as we deprive an equal opportunity in pursuing medicine.

SOURCE: MadrasRediscovered | S.Muthiah