For Gandhi Hospital, setting up as a mediocre sickbay with three wards in 1851 looking after British residents of Secunderabad, was the beginning of a crusade. What was named the Cantonment Hospital at the beginning of the 20th century by its first superintendent, Lt. Col. C.M. Thompson, and later, as King Edward Memorial Hospital in 1913, was then pushed into a dilemma, as the Government dilly-dallied and put the shifting proposal on the backburner.
