Kasturba Hospital has a bed strength of 275, of which 100 are reserved for Family Welfare Surgery and has a staff strength of 173 employees. It is situated in a rural area and caters mostly to the needs of rural population around and gives free treatment to poor patients.
Kasturba Hospital provides a wide spectrum of Obstetric, Gynaecology and Paediatric services. The Labour Room has all facilities for intensive fetal and maternal monitoring.   A well equipped modern neo - natal intensive care ward provides advanced care to newborn babies and has all the facilities to manage premature babies and critically ill babies.  It is a referral hospital for high risk obstetric cases and premature and sick newborns for effective management.
Family Welfare services are provided in the hospital which is an approved centre for conducting family welfare surgeries.  Medical Termination of Pregnancies are also done.  Infertile couples are properly counselled and diagnostic and therapeutic services are offered to them.  Recanalisation surgery is also a main part of the family welfare services. So far the hospital has won the National Award twice and the State Award fourteen times for the good work done in the field of Family Welfare.
Integrated Counselling and Testing Centre (ICTC) programme is implemented in the hospital according to the action plan of Tamil Nadu State Aids Control Society (TANSACS).  
Geriatric Ward of Kasturba Hospital caters to medical problems of old women.
Telemedicine, a recent advance in medical field is practised at the hospital.  The Telemedicine Centre of the hospital facilitates to consult the doctors at Narayana Hirudayalaya, Bangalore directly and proceed with the treatment of heart patients.  Intensive care inpatient facilities are available to treat patients with heart problems at any time.  The centre has got connected to Cancer Institute, Adyar, Chennai for providing urban treatment facilities to the rural cancer patients.
Kasturba Hospital is one of the recognised institutions of Government of Tamil Nadu to do In-country Child Adoption.  Children either surrendered or abandoned are given away in adoption to deserving childless couples.
Based on the Jaipur pattern of fitting artificial limbs below and above knee for patients who have had amputation following accidents and diseases are done in the hospital as a special social service.
Kasturba Hospital runs three Creches in three villages. Community health services are rendered to nearby villages. 
Aravind Eye Hospital has started an Eye Vision Centre at Kasturba Hospital to help the rural people with eye problems.
Kasturba Hospital trains Multi – Purpose Health Workers (Female), Arogya Sevikas and Female Nursing Assistants and gives short - term training to students from other institutions.
No. of Students trained so far :
Auxiliary Nurse Midwife : 370
Multi – Purpose Health Worker :117.