This Government Medical College was started at first as an extension wing of SCB Medical College, Cuttack in the year 1961 with an annual intake of 40 students. In 1962 it started functioning at Berhampur as a medical college and in 1966 as a hospital. “Berhampur Medical College” as it was known at its inception, was subsequently, renamed as “Maharaja Krishna Chandra Gajapati Medical College” after the Late Maharaja of Parlakhemundi, Ganjam who was committed to the cause of Orissa. The construction of the medical college building was started in the year 1966, the foundation stone of which was laid by Late Dr. P.V. Jagannath Rao, the then Minister of Health, Govt. of Orissa 1963. The construction of the building was completed and formally inaugurated by Late Sri. R. N. Singh Deo, the then Chief Minister of Orissa on 21st February 1969. The college was shifted to the new building in the same year. The foundation stone of the hospital building was laid in 1963 and the hospital that was functioning in the then District Head Quarters Hospital, Berhampur shifted to the partially constructed building in 1973. Prof. Sukumar Das, an eminent surgeon, an able administrator and excellent teacher was the Principal of this college during the formative period i.e. 1963-1973. Though he was the Principal, but actually he was the main architect of this institution.
