The Calcutta Medical Research Institute was the brainchild of Mrs. Rukmini Devi Birla and also one of the finest projects of the Indian industrialist Mr. Braj Mohan Birla. It hosts a variety of professional services in the field of medicine, which includes an Operation theatre, and an Intensive care unit with ultra modern equipment and state of the art technological facilities. Department of Neurology/Neuro Surgery, Department of Paediatrics, Department of Gastroentrology and the Department of Laproscopy are the other famous departments of the Institute. It provides a total of four hundred beds for the inpatients, which includes a variety of rooms namely, Centrally Air conditioned rooms, Twin Sharing rooms, AC and non-AC wards.