Government Victoria Hospital, Kollam

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Government Victoria Hospital, Kollam
Kollam Jilla Panchayath
Geography
LocationNear District Hospital, Kollam, India
Organisation
Care systemMaternity hospital
Services
Emergency departmentyes
HelipadNo
History
Opened1887
Links
Websitehttp://www.victoriahospital.in/

Government Victoria Hospital, established in 1887, is a maternity hospital in Kollam, Kerala, India. It was the first maternity hospital in Travancore, and is known as Kollam's "hospital of women and children".[1] In the early years, it functioned as a medical school for women and was called the Victoria Hospital and Medical School for Women.[2] The college functioned under the surgeon, E. Poonen.[2] It is functioning under the control of Kollam Jilla Panchayath at present.[3] Projects including an Autism Clinic, Swapnachiraku, Infertility Clinic, Mathrusanthwanam, Snehathooval and MRI scanning unit are implemented by Kollam Jilla Panchayath in the hospital for the last years[when?]. The hospital has a monthly average outpatient (OP) of 15500, inpatient (IP) of 1300 and around 500 deliveries.[citation needed]

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