Mitford Hospital, Dhaka
Mitford Hospital, officially Sir Salimullah Medical College and Mitford Hospital, is a public teaching hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Situated in Old Dhaka area, the hospital serves as a teaching hospital of Sir Salimullah Medical College. The hospital is named after Robert Mitford, a philanthropist and British colonial official, former Collector and District Magistrate of Dhaka. It was the most important medical institution, not only in Dhaka, but in the whole of Eastern Bengal and Assam in the mid-19th century.
At present, around 750 to 800 patients avail indoor treatment from the hospital while around 1500 patients seek treatment from the out patient department of Mitford each day.
Departments
The Mitford Hospital consists of following departments:- Department of Medicine
- Department of Neurology
- Department of Nephrology
- Department of Cardiology
- Department of Hematology
- Department of Gastroenterology
- Department of Psychiatry
- Department of Dermatology
- Department of Hepatology
- Department of Pediatrics
- Department of Neonatology
- Department of Respiratory Medicine
- Department of Transfusion Medicine
- Department of Surgery
- Department of Pediatric Surgery
- Department of Neurosurgery
- Department of Burn & Plastic Surgery
- Department of Cardiac Surgery
- Department of Orthopedics
- Department of Urology
- Department of Casualty
- Department of Ophthalmology
- Department of ENT and HNS
- Department of Anesthesiology
- Department of Gynae and Obs
- Department of Radiology