The Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital, also known as Maharaja Yashwant Rao Hospital or simply M. Y. Hospital, is a

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located in the heart of city of

Indore Indore () is the largest and most populous city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It serves as the headquarters of both Indore District and Indore Division. It is also considered as an education hub of the state and is the only city to ...

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.It is the tertiary teaching hospital of one of the oldest and premier government medical colleges in India, MGM Medical College, Indore.

Facilities

M. Y. Hospital has 1300 beds with all the major medical departments:

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obstetrics Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. As a medical specialty, obstetrics is combined with gynecology under the discipline known as obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN), which is a sur ...

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, dermatology, chest&tb,

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, E.N.T.,

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, and

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and superspeciality departments. Hospital has 25 bedded medical intensive care unit, 15 hemodialysis machine, endoscopy unit, ventilators etc. There are SICU, NICU, PICU, burns units and surgical superspeciality units in M Y hospital. This seven storied government hospital is surrounded by a group of 6 hospitals in MYH campus namely 200 bedded Chacha Nehru Children's hospitals, 100 bedded M.R. TB hospital, 100 bedded cancer hospital,600 bedded Superspeciality hospital and 500 bedded MTH Women's hospital. The old KEM school is also situated in this campus. It also has a 100 bedded mental hospital associated with it which is located in Badganga, Indore. The total number of beds in the hospitals associated with MGM Medical College is about 2900.

History

Indore was once the centre of health care in western India. Central India's first medical institution, King Edward Medical School was established here as early as in 1878 & Indore charitable hospital was started in the year 1847. The hospital is named after

Yashwantrao Holkar Yashwant Rao Holkar (c. 1776-1811) also known as Jaswantrao Holkar belonging to the Holkar dynasty of the Maratha Empire was the Maharaja of the Maratha Empire. He was a gifted military leader and educated in accountancy as well as literate in ...

Maharaja Mahārāja (; also spelled Maharajah, Maharaj) is a Sanskrit title for a "great ruler", "great king" or " high king". A few ruled states informally called empires, including ruler raja Sri Gupta, founder of the ancient Indian Gupta Empire, a ...

of Indore, the last Holkar ruler. When it was inaugurated in 1955, it was Asia's largest government hospital & largest government hospital till date in CENTRAL INDIA. It is the first government hospital to be computerised. The first dean of the college was Dr. Bose, Who was also the head of department of pharmacology.

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External links

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