The healing process - I
The trials and tribulations of the founding of the The Sir
Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Hospital and the Grant Medical
College show the colonial authorities and the Indians
working towards the common weal
Dr Sunil K. Pandya
"As a trading company, the chief goal of the East India Company was to generate profit for its shareholders in Britain. The education of the natives of India was not a priority,” wrote the late medical researcher Dr Sunil K. Pandya in the first in the two-part series detailing the founding of the Sir J. J. Hospital and the Grant Medical College in Bombay. Medical care and education were not priorities for the colonial authorities. It was left to individual socially conscious Englishmen and philanthropic natives to found medical and educational institutions. The 180-year-old J. J. Hospital spread over 44......
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