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Army Medical Corps (1799 words) |
 | The Army Medical Corps (AMC) came into existence as a homogeneous corps of officers and men on the pattern of the Royal Army Medical Corps on 03 April 1943 by the amalgamation of the Indian Medical Service, the Indian Medical Department and the Indian Hospital Corps. |
| The service aims at increasing the battle efficiency of the soldier and towards that end is interested in increasing his powers of resistance to the various diseases. |
| The Corps along with its affiliated sister services in the Navy and Air Force are the major facility with the Government to affect its welfare activity for serving and retired defence personnel. |
| Army Medical Corps (1031 words) |
| The Army Medical Corps came into existence as a homogeneous corps of officers and men on the pattern of the Royal Army Medical Corps on 03 Apr 1943 by the amalgamation of the Indian Medical Service, the Indian Medical Department and the Indian Hospital Corps. |
| Thus the Bengal Medical Service was formed in 1764, the Madras Medical Service in 1767 and the Bombay Medical Service in 1779 for the three Presidency Armies of Bengal, Madras and Bombay respectively. |
| Indianisation of this service commenced from 1915 onwards. |
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