Care system Public | Funding Government hospital | |
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Hospital type Teaching, Women & Children's | ||
Cheluvamba Hospital for Women and Children (formerly Vanivilas Hospital) in Mysore, was established in 1889 by Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar. It is a tertiary referral center and teaching hospital attached to the Mysore Medical College and Research Institute. It is located on Irwin Road, in Mysore opposite the medical college and in the same campus as Krishnarajendra Hospital.
The hospital offers services to obstetrics, gynecology and paediatric patients, and has specialized units providing neonatal care, paediatric surgery, diarrhoel diseases treatment, immunizations and others. It has about 410 beds including 130 pediatric beds and 280 beds in obstetrics and gynecology and also has a designated neonatal ward and a diarrhoel diseases unit. About 40–45 babies are delivered here each day. There are two neonatal intensive care units (NICU) accommodating 30 infants at a time. The hospital's out-patient department sees 500 to 600 out-patients from Mysore and surrounding districts every day.