Mysore Race Club (MRC) Eye Hospital is a prestigious social service project of MRC Charitable Trust. Horse racing was started in Mysore by Maharaja Chamaraja Wadiyar in 1891. MRC Limited celebrated 100 years of horse racing in Mysore in 1991 (1891-1991). MRC Eye Hospital was established under MRC Charitable Trust to commemorate the centenary of the royal sport of horse racing in Mysore.
MRC Eye Hospital is a 80-bedded Hospital, situated in one acre plot at Siddarthanagar. It is fully equipped with the best of hi-tech instruments. District Blindness Control Societies of Mysore, Chamarajanagar, Mandya and Kodagu districts, Rotary and Lions Clubs and innumerable generous donors are associated with the Hospital for the free eye screening and cataract operation camps.
