Messages

Raj Bhavan,

HYDERABAD.

Date : January 4, 1997

KRISHAN KANT

GOVERNOR OF ANDHRA PRADESH

MESSAGE

I am glad to know that the guntur Medical College is bringing out a Souvenir to mark its Golden Jubilee year (1946 – 1996).

            Established less than a year before India’s independence, the Guntur Medical Collge was a Symbol of the commitment of the country to the advancement of medical and technical knowledge.education and health care. It has amply justified its founder’s optimism. Doctors, Surgeions, and Medical Technologists produced by the Guntur Medical College have earned world-wide recognition and renown not only for their excellence but also for their commitment and service.

            Marking adavanced and yet affordable medical facilities available to the rural and the urban people, especially the poor and the under-privileged, is one of the major challenges facing our country. I wish the Guntur Medical College to be in the forefront of achieving thisn objectibve, however difficult and strenuous the task many be. Rather than become and oasis of advanced, but expensive medical facility and education, the college must attempt to become an  affordable recourse to the needy, the poor and the sick. That will serve not just a national goal but a much larger ethical and humanitarian purpose. Only by striving to achieve great goals, great goals, great deeds can be accomplished.

            I wish the Golden Jubilee celebrations all success.

(KRISHAN KANT)