Church of South India Hospital, Bangalore

DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY

The Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology is a full-fledged unit catering to the needs of women during pregnancy and for other issues relating to reproductive health. The department was established from the inception of the Hoapital oner a 100 years ago, mainly to serve the Muslim women who would not consult a male doctor. Even today, they form the majority of women coming to the department. Quite appropriately, the hospital has kept up a policy to engage only women doctors in this department! The department has grown from small beginnings through the years to its present shape and size, as a referral ObGyn unit for the smaller hospitals in the area. It is now a tertiary, teaching unit with facilities to handle high-risk Obstetric and Gynaecological patients including cancer patients.

  The department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, on the third floor (B Floor) of the hospital, has a well-equipped labor ward with facilities for delivering low risk and high-risk cases. Electronic fetal monitoring and central oxygen supply are available in the labor room. Good neonatal resuscitation facility in the labor room and the new-born baby nursery adjacent to the labor room have contributed to good perinatal outcomes. The labor room has independent labor cots. Apart from this, there are two waiting rooms for observing and monitoring women in early labor and one special care room for women with risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, anemia, etc.

  The maternity floor has well trained senior staff nurses and ANMs. Spacious wards are available to patients in three levels: the general ward, the semiprivate ward and the special ward.

  The department is well supported round the clock by fully equipped operation theatres, ICU facilities, laboratory and ambulance services to be able to handle high risk and referred cases at any time.