A year ago, the mood was ceremonial because BJ Medical College and the hospital meant the Foundation’s Day. On Monday (June 16, 2025), the scene spent devastation and despair – families are waiting to identify their relatives killed when the aircraft of Aviation India, doctors who lost their colleagues who stoically and wherever they were.
This day of the Foundation, its 146th, will stand out forever for its sharp sadness. BJMC, one of the oldest medical faculties in India, was an epicenter of the event after the 12th accident, which killed 241 people on board and 29 on Earth, including five MBBS students.
While families, their faces gloomy with sorrow and anxiety, waited for DNA identification to claim their loved ones’ bodies, the surroundings reflected their state of mind.
The thick layers of soot are still stored on its buildings, damaged as a result of the accident.
On June 16, many of his students and graduates took social media to wish their college and Alma Mater “happy birthday”, but grief and chaotic scenes are obvious on the campus right now because the survivors and family members are trying to cope with the accident.
Flight AI171 bound to London-Boeing Dreamliner 787-8-8-Thursday afternoon crashed moments after take-off from international airport Sardar Vallabhbhai patel and fell on the campus of the Faculty of Medicine in Meghaninagar before embarking on flames.
So far, a total of 99 victims have been identified through DNA and 64 bodies, including the bodies of former Minister Gujarat Vijay Rupani, who was on board an unfortunate aircraft, was handed over to their families, officials said on Monday.
Many medical students and resident doctors were just sitting on a hostel food as part of the aircraft on the side of the tail and converted an ordinary lunch hour into a terrible nightmare.
The images of the separate tail part of the aircraft uncertainly stored near the roof of the hostel building, the pieces of the fuselage scattered on the ground, and inside the buildings and piles of burned bodies, many people who have been hit by tragedies still chase.
Day after the crash, ARUN Prashant, a native of Chennai and the second year of MD on Byramajee Jaiseebhoy Medical College (BJMC), remembered horror and how he jumped from the first floor of the hostel building to escape.
“I came for lunch around 13:30. When I had lunch, I heard a loud explosion and suddenly there was smoke everywhere. I ran down the stairs and then jumped from the first floor of the building,” Prashant told reporters.
“We were around 20-30 people in Atulam (Hostel) … We had to know that it was an aircraft crash up to the building,” he recalled.
The Institute began its journey in 1871 as the Faculty of Medicine Ahmedabad and has been the cornerstone of medical education since its foundation.
Initially, he was associated with the Ahmedabad civil hospital and only 14 students of training as hospital assistants began.
In 1879, he led a generous gift of 20,000 RS Sir Byramjee Jaiseeebhoy according to the official website of the Institute.
The institution has constantly expanded and ensured association with the university of doctors and surgeons in Mumbai in 1917 and later at the University Bombay in 1946 and received its status BJ Medical College, “offering LCPS diplomas”.
The college, which currently has several large buildings on its campus, including the main block built after independence, is a modest origin.
Litom – English and gujarati – inscription on the old plaque at the Institute is: “Byramajee Jesus Medical School Ahmedabad, founded on June 16, 1879. Like the sister institution in Poona, this school takes its name since late Mr. Byramjee Jeeebhoy. The university combined its university and postgraduate courses at the University of Gujarat.
“Every year, 250 students will ensure admission through the national entrance examination and have completed world -class training in medical sciences,” says BJMC.
Postgraduate courses are offered in 24 medicine branches, with a total income of 418 students a year, he says.
Alumni BJMC served during their trip to various medical institutions and today would be a day to celebrate and exchange greetings, but for an air crash one of the worst air disasters in recent history.
In the middle of the tragedy, doctors of this prestigious institution continue to serve the injured, the sick and the needy, living according to the pledge they took after graduation.
While June 16 is already anchored for this institute as a historical day, now on June 12 will also be improved in the collective consciousness of people associated with the Faculty of Medicine – the day they want to forget.
Published – 16 June 2025 14:45
