Mysuru’s medical infrastructure is witnessing a major expansion with new public healthcare facilities being established to benefit not only the residents of Mysuru, but also patients from neighbouring districts.
The PKTB campus on KRS Road is emerging as a major healthcare hub, thanks to the availability of land for new establishments. In the last one decade, almost all the new public healthcare facilities have come up on the vast campus. Sri Jayadeva Institute, District Hospital, Super Speciality Hospital, and Trauma Care Centre are operating in the campus.
Among the new facilities for which foundation stones were laid recently are the Institute of Nephro-Urology, and a Regional Endocrinology Centre, which are expected to improve healthcare services in the region.
While the Institute of Nephro-Urology and Endocrinology Centre are State funded (₹75 crore and ₹50 crore respectively), the Critical Care Block, which is also coming up on the PKTB campus, is a facility with funding from the Centre and State in a 60-40 ratio.
The foundation stones for the Nephro-Urology Hospital, which presently functions in the campus of K.R. Hospital in the city, and the Endocrinology Centre were laid by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah here recently. The Urology Institute will be a six-storied facility with 100 beds, while the Critical Care Block will be a three-storied unit. All the new facilities are attached to the Mysore Medical College and Research Institute (MMCRI).
