Command Hospital Airforce - Military hospital in Bengaluru - Bengaluru Urban, India

This hospital, while well-equipped and staffed with experienced doctors, unfortunately, tends to fall short in accurately diagnosing serious health issues. Regrettably, even some doctors seem rushed and might not allocate sufficient time to listen to patients thoroughly. In a personal case, my wife experienced a significant oversight a decade ago when she fell from a bus, resulting in persistent knee pain. Despite multiple visits to this hospital and consultations with orthopedic specialists, they consistently prescribed X-rays but failed to conduct a thorough diagnosis. Over the years, the pain persisted, and despite my wife's continued visits to this hospital, the doctors didn't progress beyond suggesting painkillers. The true extent of her injury, a Meniscus tear from the fall, was overlooked. Had it been correctly diagnosed and addressed at the time, it could have been managed with exercise, medication, and physiotherapy. In September 2022 when the pain became unbearable, we went to Manipal Hospital, Jayanagar. During the initial consultation, Dr. Ayyappan V Nair, accurately identified the Meniscus tear and advised appropriate treatment. Unfortunately, by this time, the tear had progressed to a complex stage, bordering on early arthritis. Consequently, my wife had to undergo a complex arthroscopic knee surgery in November to rectify the issue, a far more intricate procedure than initially anticipated. Now, a year post-operation, my wife is finally free from the persistent pain and has made a complete recovery. It's disheartening to realize that had the initial hospital conducted a more thorough examination back then and not solely relied on X-rays, this complex tear and the subsequent surgery might have been avoided, preventing the progression to early arthritis. Additionally, I would like to highlight that this hospital should consider improving their process of diagnosis. During my wife's visits, an MRI was never suggested, and solely relying on X-rays might have led to the delay in identifying the exact issue. Navigating the hospital for treatments can be a challenging experience, with considerable running around involved, and there seems to be no definite timeframe for receiving treatments. On a positive note, the hospital does offer the convenience of online OPD appointments and allows patients to access their lab reports online. I have attached images of the OPD and OT schedules, as well as the process for online appointments and lab report downloads for reference.

Really a nice hospital. Fully under the control of the Indian defense ministry. Doctors also hold military ranks. Fully under the surveillance of the Indian Army. The hospital compound gives us a different vibe. Never feel like a hospital, more like a park

Never ever, ever, ever visit this if you have some dignity left in your soul. Just go and read all the reviews once to get an understanding of what the Bangalore commando hospital looks like. The entire staff, Doctors, so called nurses, every other person works here thinks they own this place and behave like they just dropped from heaven. If you had to get admitted, then oops, keep your self respect out of the gate. Cuz you are going to be treated like dog $hit. If you are lucky eno, may be ll meet one or 2 kind souls here and there taking care of you. Is writing all these reviews going to help. Hell no. Yet we all come here and write, thinking someone is going to come and change the world. My final verdict, with a heavy heart I write this. I LOST A LOT OF RESPECT I HAD FOR THE ARMED FORCES. CUZ OF THE WAY THEY TREAT EX SERVICE MEN AND THEIR FAMILIES. sorry I said this.

Place is so elaborated and staffs and few doctors expect patients relatives to do some of there job like take blood samples bring test reports my question is why have there higher them for or atlest higher more people. atleast in emergencycases in night.....bad experience... atlest wish things was in same building instead of walking and to find the in hunted area in night with dogs chasing and barking at ..

My mom was 47 years old and admitted for a grade 1 brain tumor surgery. Their negligence post/pre surgery killed her. She was diabetic from the beginning still they operated her on a sugar level of 200. Due to which many complications happened post surgery. Instructions given by surgeons are not followed by ground staff. The ground staff is highly ignorant, arrogant and useless. They should shift to the private sector.

I felt very happy for the cause of this hospital; it's our gratitude towards the saviour of our nation, but I have one concern here, the employees here. If you notice, there are lots of Malayalis working here, and they only support Malayali people, not the other states of people. They become a mafia here, and they don't respect other language people, they don't even treat them properly. They are very rude. It's very difficult for us to convince them, so I request that the government please hire mixed states of people. It's surprising to me that there are no Kannadigas! It's my humble request to the state and central government to look into this issue; otherwise, people have to suffer a lot.

I regret my dad's decision on joining army after his retirement after going through the dark side post retirement. Everything in command hospital is decided based on the rank which is a joke!. Why should one elder person salute a young officer who is a doctor? Equality post retirement at CHAFB is under the ground. Please start treating everybody the same way irrespective of Rank. Treatments are decided based on rank , higher the rank they will refer you to good private hospital it's so disgusting to say that they prescribe chemotherapy drugs based on the rank. I have gone through a rough time in CHAFB I was pushed out by doctors and staff for questioning their inequality. Documents are prioritized over life. My mother was diagnosed with MCT, the doctors didn't really performed the surgery well they didn't do their best we were not allowed to question the doctor we had to node everything what they say, after surgery we were referred to medical chemo Dr. Rahul sood one of the worst doctor i have met so far in my life who never cared their patient he never explains the side effects of the drugs he prescribes drugs according to the ranks CHAFB never follows protocol why are procedure is always different from private hospitals. CHAFB never cares of Veterans life. Dr Rahul sood is not fit to be a doctor I would never want to visit such a doctor in my life. The rooms in CHAFB are worst than the government hospital. Empaneled hospitals can any time withdraw their contract from ECHS I request you to never depend and trust on ECHS . I want to escalate this to central ministry IN charge for ECHS. I had to loose my parents for poor and careless treatment from ECHS. After seeing so much irregularities I would definitely don't want be in army for how they treat you after retirement based on the ranks and doctors like Rahul sood from medical oncology you are solely responsible for the loss of my mother such a shame for ECHS. BEWARE ALL THE VETERANS PLEASE DON'T VISIT CHAFB IF YOU REALLY WANT TO BE ALIVE. THEY WILL TREAT YOU AS AN ANIMAL SPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A LOWER RANK!!! it's high time you stop such discrimination and take it seriously it could be yourself one day facing such thing . Never depend on ECHS it cost me my mother's life depending on ECHS and CHAFB . Its a shame for the veterans and for all the effort my dad did for this country Never visit them specially oncology and all doctors at OIC polyclinic Bangalore Urban. They are not life savers. I regret my decision to get my mother treated in CHAFB oncology I didn't have to lose her if I treated her in a better hospital than CHAFB............... If you like your parent pls don't visit !!!!

Worst staff especially in the skin department.Resident doctors only roam here and there just see 1 patient and roam for 20 mins .No one to question them...patient sit for long longg tym but they just don't care...over all the hospital staffs r worst in every department work less chit chat and check only to the higher rank ppl carefully.This has to be stopped as mentioned by other people's who have suffered like us.Shame full act