Saurashtra University

Mission

To train competent, compassionate and caring physicians through excellence in teaching, patient care and medical research. To build an Educational Centre of Excellence in Teaching as well as Training, to render treatment at an affordable cost and to maintain standards, ethics and morale at a level the area may be proud of.

The Institution took shape under the aegis of the great visionary and philanthropist Shri C. U. Shah, who is a man with mission “Never hurt-ever help”, a person who dedicated his life for the social upliftment by building educational, medical and social institutions mainly in the district of Surendranagar in Gujarat and also in other parts of the country.

Brief History:
Pandit Dindayal Upadhyay Medical College, Rajkot was started in June 1995. It now admits 150 (100 Recognised and 50 Permitted) students per year and is the fastest growing medical college of Gujarat with the target of providing sub speciality education in 15 branches of Medicine & Surgery. It is affiliated to Saurashtra University, Rajkot.
The Civil hospital complex at Rajkot actually has the following hospitals with a total inpatient capacity of 750 beds.