B.J. Medical College and Sassoon Hospital, Pune was established in 1946.

Its affiliated to University of Pune.

with Shri B. G. Kher the head of the Bombay Government, laying the foundation stone, the school churning out licentiates, made way for the college training and training out fully fledged medical graduate doctors.

This was the fulfilment of the visioll of a far sighted Parsi philarthropist Byramjee Jeejeebhoy, to have an institution in Poona for training of doctors & providing medical facilities on par with those in Bombay.