Krishna Rajendra Hospital (K R Hospital) and Cheluvamba Hospitals are both tertiary referral centers and

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s attached to the

Mysore Medical College Mysore Medical College and Research Institute (previously called Mysore Medical College, abbreviated MMC), also known as Government Medical College, Mysuru is one of the oldest medical colleges in India. It is located in the heart of the city ...

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. K R Hospital has a total bed capacity of around 1330 beds which includes 335 beds in general medicine, 313 in general surgery and about 500 in other specialties like ENT,

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, plastic surgery,

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and others. People from different taluks, villages and other places in and around Mysore visit the hospital for affordable caring and treatment for various ailments and diseases. A new multi-storied OPD building has recently been commissioned and this houses a state of the art ICCU on the ground floor and medical wards on other floors in addition to various consultation rooms. The surgical wards are located in a separate building which is popularly known as the "stone building". The hospital has a 24-hour casualty,

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and

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laboratories,

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and

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catering to its needs. More recently a number of subspecialties have been introduced and patients have had the benefit of utilizing plastic surgery, urology, nephrology, cardiology, laser surgery, burns ward and dialysis services to mention a few.

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