Aarupadai Veedu Medical College,Puducherry

Thirumuruga Kirupananda Variyar Thavathiru Sundara Swamigal Medical Educational and Charitable Trust was started by our Founder Chancellor Dr.A. Shanmugasundaram in the year 1981 to serve the needy in the society. The trust established its very first medical college at Pondicherry, Aarupadai Veedu Medical College and Hospital, in the year 2000. Located on the Pondicherry – Cuddalore Road, a national highway, the self-contained and serene campus is spread over 44 acres of lush green lands.

Initially affiliated to Pondicherry University, the institution subsequently came under the ambit of Vinayaka Mission’s Research Foundation Deemed to be University, in the year 2004. The institution offers postgraduate courses in 19 disciplines and Ph.D. programmes across various specialties and interdisciplinary areas. The MBBS programme  was started in 2000-2001 and has continued ever since. At present, the annual intake is 150 MBBS and 99 postgraduate students; currently, over 750 undergraduate and postgraduate students are pursuing their studies at AVMCH.

Aarupadai Veedu Medical College and Hospital offers patient care, diagnostic, rehabilitative, preventive and pharmacy services. With its fully equipped ICCU, ICU, PICU, NICU and high dependency areas, modular operation theatres equipped with contemporary anesthesia equipment, the broad and super-specialty departments of cardiology, urology, medical gastroenterology, plastic surgery, pediatric surgery and nephrology, AVMC Hospital offers state-of-art tertiary care services to the people of the union territory of Pondicherry and the nearby districts of Tamil Nadu. Various government and third-party insurance schemes are also functional in the system.