The Dr. R. N. Cooper Municipal General Hospital is a public hospital located in Juhu, Mumbai, India.[1] It is owned by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and is operated under a public-private partnership.[2] This hospital was upgraded into medical college in 2015.
It was started in 1969 as a maternity home before it was converted into a full-fledged general hospital in 1970.[3]
The hospital underwent massive reconstruction after the original building was declared unfit for use in 1999. The new upgrade, at a cost of Template:INR321 crore, includes more beds, as well as systems for rainwater harvesting and sewage treatment.[1] The new hospital design includes an infection control design to prevent doctors from contracting tuberculosis while on duty.[4]
Departments
The hospital/college has the following departments:[5]
- Anaesthesiology
- Anatomy
- Biochemistry
- Community Medicine
- Dentistry & Maxillofacial surgery
- Dermatology & Venereology
- Forensic Medicine
- General Surgery
- Internal Medicine
- Microbiology
- Neurosurgery
- Obstetrics and gynaecology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedics
- Otorhinolaryngology
- Paediatrics
- Pathology
- Pharmacology
- Physiology
- Physiotherapy & Occupational Therapy
- Psychiatry
- Pulmonary Medicine
- Radiology
Incidents
There were protests at the hospital after a patient attacked a nurse in April 2020.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cooper Hospital gets new Rs321crore building in Mumbai(29 November 2013). Retrieved 2014-01-25.
- ↑ BMC commences Cooper Hospital revival project. The Times of India(13 March 2003). Retrieved 2014-01-25.
- ↑ Chapter 2; Dr. RN Cooper MG Hospital. Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
- ↑ New BMC hospitals to be specially designed to save docs from TB(15 September 2013). Retrieved 2014-01-25.
- ↑ Departments. Cooper edical College. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- ↑ Protest after patient attacks nurse at Cooper. Mumbai Mirror(April 16, 2020).
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