An ailing mother and child will always be the prime actors in any story, who in India sadly lack the attention they deserve.
The Bangalore Baptist Hospital (BBH) has heard this call for the distressed and recently inaugurated two buildings, including a Women and Children’s Healthcare Research Centre (WCHRC) and a Learning and Living Centre (LLC) for Nursing Students.
The WCHRC is a state of the art facility with a 23-bedded Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatrics Intensive Care Units for 11 patients and 3 Operation Theatres. Labour and Birthing rooms complete this facility that will provide optimal maternal and childcare under one roof.
The Learning and Living Centre is an accomodation space for 224 nursing and postgraduate medical students that is equipped with smart classrooms and e-cafe’s.
The smart classrooms include the latest teaching innovations, technologies, evidence based participatory learning pedagogies, approaches and practices in medical education. It fills up a space of 23,000 square feet encourages the students to learn where they live.
The 2 buildings were inaugurated on January 14th at the hospital premises and adds to its tenet of Quality with Compassion.
BBH is a 340-bed tertiary care multi-speciality teaching hospital that extends its care to both urban and.rural Bangalore. The hospital is reputed for its empathetic and skilled service that extends to anybody in need.
The projects are funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) and Baylor University.
The additions add promise to trusted healthcare for mothers and children in need and a.hope to inspire more doctors to continue BBH’s mission of service to all strata of Bangalore society.
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