Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMCH), formerly Himachal Pradesh Medical College, is a public medical college and hospital located in Snowdown area of Lakkar Bazaar, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India.
[1]On 29 June 2013, Himachal Pradesh Health minister Kaul Singh Thakur said that Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) would be upgraded on the analogy of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Sewa Yojana, (PMSSY).
The minister stated that during his meeting with Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad , the proposal for granting the AIIMS status to IGMC was under consideration of the government of India.
[2] The Department of Radiotherapy & Oncology of this institution is an approved Regional Cancer Centre of India.
[2][3] It was founded in 1977 as a Tumor Clinic of the hospital and was granted the status of RCC in 2001.