Logos of India

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.