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3 unusual facts about King George Hospital


King George Hospital, Visakhapatnam

The need for expansion of the hospital gave rise to construction of the Bhavanagar Ward, which was later inaugurated by Shri Krishna Kumar Sinhji of Bhavnagar, then Governor of Madras in December, 1949.

Lawrie Hugh McGavin

His first post was as assistant surgeon at the London North-Western Hospital, and he later obtained posts as a surgeon at the King George Hospital and the Endsleigh Hospital for Officers, before being appointed consulting surgeon to the Dreadnought Hospital in Greenwich and the Hospital for Women.

Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain

The First World War having begun in 1914, the following year he joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit as an alternative to volunteering for combat, and was sent to York, moving later to the King George Hospital in London, attached to the X-ray department.


Andrzej Skarbek

He later worked at University College Hospital, King George Hospital, Ilford and in 1977 he became consultant psychotherapist at Runwell, Rochford and Basildon Hospitals.


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