St. Philomena's Hospital, Bengaluru

St. Philomena’s Hospital is a long-established multispecialty hospital in Bengaluru that has served patients since 1937. The hospital combines general and specialist medicine with surgery, women’s and children’s care, emergency medicine and round-the-clock critical-care services. Its departments include general and family medicine, cardiology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopaedics, nephrology, urology, pulmonology, oncology, obstetrics and gynaecology, neonatology, paediatrics, general surgery, vascular and plastic surgery and interventional radiology.

The hospital describes itself as NABH accredited. Its laboratory runs around the clock and covers biochemistry, haematology, clinical pathology, microbiology and serology, immunology, molecular biology, immunoassays, histopathology and cytology. The blood centre performs ABO grouping and typing, antibody detection and cross-matching before transfusion, and stores components including packed cells, platelet concentrates, fresh frozen plasma and cryoprecipitate.

The imaging and radiology department lists diagnostic and interventional radiology, bedside ultrasound, computed radiography systems and fixed and portable X-ray units, and an MRI facility was inaugurated at the hospital in September 2024. The ambulance fleet is described as one ACLS ambulance, two BLS ambulances and two patient transport vehicles equipped to NABH requirements. The hospital also has an Institutional Review Board that reviews studies involving patients.

This breadth allows complex medical and surgical cases to be managed across several teams within one institution. Critical care is staffed 24/7 by intensivists and multidisciplinary teams for patients after major surgery or trauma and for severe medical illness. The hospital’s emergency department includes 12 emergency-care beds, trauma and cardiac emergency services, a minor OT, a dedicated ER for women and children, resuscitation capability and point-of-care testing. St. Philomena’s is particularly strong for acute medical care, surgery, cardiac and neurological treatment, women’s and children’s services and patients who may need coordinated emergency and critical-care support. Its long operating history and specialist training programmes also give it a substantial teaching and clinical role in Bengaluru.