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Minto Eye Hospital
Geography
Location	Chamrajpet, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Coordinates	12°57′42.93″N 77°34′18.84″E / 12.9619250°N 77.5719000°E / 12.9619250; 77.5719000
Organisation
Funding	Government hospital
Type	Specialist/Teaching
Affiliated university	Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute
Services
Beds	300
History
Opened	1913
Links
Website	http://www.bmcri.org/minto_hosp.html
Lists	Hospitals in India

Minto Eye Hospital is government-run speciality hospital in Bangalore treating diseases of the eye. Minto Ophthalmic Hospital, (a.k.a. Minto Regional Institute of Ophthalmology), was established in 1913, making it one of the oldest specialty eye hospitals in the world. It is affiliated to the Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, and is an institution of national importance.^{[1][citation needed]}

It is a 300 bedded, tertiary ophthalmic hospital.It includes an Eye Bank, Glaucoma clinic, Squint clinic and a Vitreo-retinal centre.

Hundreds of ophthalmologists have been trained at this institute since its inception. A tertiary referral centre, Minto Hospitals offers its services at subsidized rates to the poor and needy of Karnataka and its neighbouring states.^{[citation needed]}[1]

• Clinical phenotype and linkage analysis of the congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles in an Indian family
• A RARE CASE OF PROPTOSIS IN A NEW-BORN CHILD. Br J Ophthalmol. 1927 Feb;11(2):79
• Childhood blindness in a rural population of southern India: prevalence and etiology - Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2008 May-Jun;15(3):176-82

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