Ahmedabad plane crash: On BJMC foundation day, sombre mood on campus coping with grief

A year ago, the mood was celebrated because BJ Medical College and Hospital celebrated the foundation day. On Monday, June 16, 2025, he wrote the stage demolition and despair – when a Air India plane has complex falling, families waiting for their relatives to be identified, their colleagues losing the residues of those who were once stoic and everywhere.

On this day, BJMC, one of the oldest medical colleges in India, was the center of the action that killed 241 people and 29 on the ground after the June 12 accident.

Families, with their faces grief and anxiety, scary, while waiting for their loved ones to define DNA to claim their bodies, the circles reflected their mind situations.

The layers of thick institutions are still accumulated in their buildings and have been damaged as a result of an accident.

On June 16 last year, most of his students and graduates went to social media to wish their universities “happy years”, but while the survivors and family members were fighting to deal with the accident, grief and chaotic scenes are now evident on the campus.

Flight of London AI171-Boeing Dreamliner 787-8-Thursday afternoon Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel collapsed after he got up from the International Airport and fell to the campus of the Medical College in the Meghaninagar region before he went to the flames.

Authorities said on Monday, so far 99 victims have been identified through DNA matches and delivered to 64 corpse families, including former Gujarat Prime Minister Vijay RuPani on malicious planes.

Many medical students and the settled doctor sat down to eat at the hostel turmoil when the tail side of the plane hit him, turned an ordinary lunch time into a terrible nightmare.

The images of the detached queue of the aircraft, the hostel pieces placed close to the roof of the hostel confusion building, scattered on the ground and inner buildings, and charged objects are still disturbing many people who are still affected by tragedy.

A day after the accident, Arun Prashant, Chennai, at Byramjee Jeebhoy Medical College (BJMC), and a second year of MD, remembered how he jumped from the first floor of a hostel building to escape.

Pras I came to eat around 13:30.

“We were about 20-30 people in Atulyam (hostel) … We should know that it was just a plane crash after leaving the building.”

The institute, which started its journey as Ahmedabad Medical Faculty in 1871, has been the cornerstone of medical education since its establishment.

Initially, it started with the fact that only 14 students were educated as a hospital assistant.

According to the institute’s official website, in 1879, Sir Byramjee Jeejeebhoy, a 20,000 RS generous donation, led the school to be renamed as BJ Medical School.

The institution has stable expanded, in 1917, the Bombay Doctors and Surgeons College, and later in 1946 with the Bombay University, and BJ Medical Faculty’s status offers the LCPS diploma. “

The college, which currently has several large buildings, including the main block built after independence on the campus, has a humble origin.

Bilingual – English and Gujarati – Inscription on an old plaque in the Institute, “Byramjee Jeebhoy Medical Faculty Ahmedabad was founded on June 16, 1879. Like the sister institution in Poona, this school is late Hon’ble Bay Byramjee Jeebhoy, CSI, CSI, CSI, CSI, CSI, CSI, CSI, CS, CS, CS, CS, CS, CS Conc000 contributed to the construction of 20,000. ” In the 1950s, he connected his college undergraduate and graduate courses to the University of Gujarat.

BJMC website, “250 students every year, first -class training in medical sciences by taking the national entrance exam enables to be accepted.”

Graduate courses are presented in 24 medicine branches with a total of 418 students a year.

BJMC graduates served various medical institutions during their journey and today would be a day for celebration and greeting exchange, but for the air accident, one of the worst aviation disasters in recent history.

In the midst of the tragedy, the doctors of this prestigious institution continue to serve those who are injured and needed until their commitment after graduation.

June 16, although it has already been preserved as a historical day for this institute, now on June 12, people associated with medical college will be engraved in collective consciousness – a day when they want to forget.