BMCB College of Nursing (BMCBCN), Bhuj

Overview

The Bhuj Mercantile co- operative Bank Institute of Nursing charitable trust has been work in since 10 years in kutch before the devastating earthquake of January 2001 to further the cause of education in Gujarat. The trust had been doing its charitable activities since its inception and before the earthquake in all the social fields. It has organized many functions, educational programmes and social gatherings etc. Kutch is remote area and having adverse climatic extreme condition and had a devasted earthquake killed the people 1000.If we would have got enough nursing and adequate medical facilities kutch would not have suffered this. To prevent further deaths due to natural and man-made calamities the BMCB charitable trust started to render its service to kutch. It was established by Mr.Mahendra Morabia managing trustee of BMCB trust, Lakhond, Kachchh-Bhuj. The trust runs school and health sciences. The trust felt that yeoman service should be rendered to the society by training nurses to meet the health need of the society; therefore the college of nursing was started with a four year B.Sc (N) programme. Subsequently in 2010 three and half year diploma nursing programme and two years leading to auxiliary midwifery nursing programme was started in 2012.