David Hare Block

The David Hare Block is a part of Kolkata Medical College Hospital.

The Professor of Surgery at medical college had no separate surgical wards and had a single OT at the MCH building.

At the instance of Principal G. Bomford and Surgeon Richard Havelock Charles, the building of a modern surgical hospital was undertaken.

The total cost of building the hospital was Rs 10,17,585/- and was so named to commemorate the visit of the Prince of Wales to India.

In 1976, the Prince of Wales Hospital was renamed the David Hare Block (to pay tribute to the noted philanthropist and only nonmedical Principal of Medical College, on his bicentennial birth celebration.)