GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL, RAMANATHAPURAM (GMCHR)

GOVERNMENT
MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL,
RAMANATHAPURAM (GMCHR)

The emblem of Government Medical College and Hospital, Ramanathapuram (GMCHR) features the Staff of Hermes or Staff of Caduceus with a pair of wings and entwined by a pair of serpents crested by a pair of bol of cotton. The Staff is ensconced by a decorative brown circular border inscribed with the name and place of the college. Below the seal, on a red banner, the motto of the college ‘Service to Humanity’ is written. The staff with the snake has long been a symbol of medicine and the medical profession; the cotton bols represent the major agricultural produce of the region; and the colour brown signifies earthiness, simplicity, stability, humility, warmth, reliability, endurance, timelessness and tradition.