Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital
The Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital, also known as Maharaja Yashwant Rao Hospital or simply M. Y. Hospital, is a government hospital located in the heart of city of Indore, India.It is the tertiary teaching hospital of one of the oldest & prestigious medical colleges in India.
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| Geography | |
| Location | A. B. Road, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India |
| Coordinates | 22°42'48"N 75°52'48"E |
| Organisation | |
| Funding | Government hospital |
| Type | Teaching, Tertiary Centre |
| History | |
| Opened | 1955 |
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| Lists | Hospitals in India |
Facilities
M. Y. Hospital has 1200 beds with all the major medical departments: surgery, medicine, obstetrics & gynaecology, dermatology, chest&tb, orthopaedics, E.N.T., ophthalmology, radiology, anaesthesiology, paediatrics, forensic medicine, and casualty, cardiology, neurology, gastroenterology, nephrology, endocrinology divisions are under parent medicine department. Medicine dept. has 18 bedded MICU, 8 bedded ICCU, 5 hemodialysis machine, endoscopy unit, ventilators etc. There are SICU, NICU, PICU, burns units and surgical superspeciality units in M Y hospital. This 8 storied govt. hospital is surrounded by a group of hospitals in MYH campus namely 300 bedded Chacha Nehru Children hospitals, 100 bedded M.R. TB hospital, 100 bedded cancer hospital. The old KEM school is also situated in this campus. It also has a mental hospital associated with it which is located in Badganga, Indore. This hospital gives special privilege to poor under a central government aided scheme. It holds the reputation of a tertiary care center in India and many government health schemes are operated by it Social medicine department.
History
Indore was once the centre of health care in western India. India's first medical institution, King Edward Medical School was established here as early as 1848. The hospital is named after Yashwantrao Holkar, Maharaja of Indore, the last Holkar ruler. When it was inaugurated in 1955, it was Asia's largest government hospital & largest hospital till date in CENTRAL INDIA. It is the first govt. hospital to be computerised. The first dean of the college was Dr. Bose, Who was also the head of department of anatomy.