Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research will celebrate its Foundation Day on July 13.
JIPMER Director S.C.Parija said that a medical college called the Ecole de Medicine de Pondicherry was established in 1823. “It was one of the earliest institutions of tropical medicine and the teaching staff comprised surgeons and doctors of the French navy and troupes coloniales , or colonial troops.
Dr. Parija added that in 1959, Se le Comte Stanislas Ostrorog, Ambassadeur de France aux Indes, laid the foundation stone of the new medical college building on the outskirts of the town and in 1964 the college moved to its new campus at Gorimedu.