Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences

Amma had a vision to create a hospital in Kerala where the poor could receive the very best medical care possible from highly skilled physicians and nurses, and in an atmosphere of love and compassion. This was the birth of the highly sophisticated Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS). AIMS Hospital in India.

AIMS Hospital:

- Not-for-profit 1,300-bed hospital provides free care to the poor

- From 1998 to 2006, 751,098 patients received free treatment

The Hospital has Six medical specialty institutes, more than 30 departments, and 10 specialty labs. -

AIMS Community Services:

- Fully-equipped ambulances for remote areas

- Special outreach projects, such as diabetes prevention

- Telemedicine for hospitals and village resource center

- Four branch hospitals provide free care

- Training of hundreds of tribal villagers as healthcare workers

- Clinics and hospice for terminally ill patients

- Ayurveda clinic, hospital, and research center

- Free health screenings and medical camps in remote areas of India

Until now, the people of India have had minimal options for affordable, highly specialized health care and poor people especially have had little choice. This 800-bed tertiary referral hospital offers sophisticated medical care, specialized services and procedures not generally available at routine hospitals. Over 50% of treatments are charitable. Read about the total number of free and subsidized treatments given at AIMS.

The miracle of AIMS is the extraordinary achievement of ordinary people working in the voluntary sector to bring to fruition a world-class, high-tech hospital. This major undertaking is a story filled with love, trust and wonder. Letters from patients at AIMS.

Speciality Centers and Departments at AIMS


	»		Heart Institute
	»		Neurosciences Institute
	»		Anaesthesiology - Critical Care Medicine
	»		Endocrinology and Diabetes
	»		GI Surgery Department
	»		Ophthalmology
	»		Orthopaedic Institute
	»		Urology and Renal Transplantation
	»		Chest Diseases Center
	»		Digestive Diseases Institute
	»		Gastroenteroloy and Hepatology Department
	»		Cranio Maxillo Facial Department
	»		Geriatrics Department
	»		Nephrology Department
	»		Nuclear Medicine
	»		Organ Transplant Programme
	»		Paediatrics Department
	»		Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
	»		Emergency Medicine Centre
	»		State of the Art Medical Imaging Center
	»		Patient Services

Medical Outreach Programs


	»		Pain Relief and Palliative Care
	»		Diabetic Welfare
	»		Disaster Response
	»		Emergency Response
	»		Mobile Medical Response
	»		Village Camps
	»		Eye Camps
	»		Neurology Clinic
	»		Tele-Medicine
			Toxicology
			Obesity Management

1. The Hospital Complex
The hospital consists of 600,000 square feet of clinical treatment areas in six towers surrounding a central atrium.

The six towers accommodate the wards, operating and recovery rooms, intensive care units, catheterization (tube insertion) laboratories, blood banking facilities, emergency services, and outpatient and endoscopy surgical units. Serving these functions are well-equipped diagnostic laboratories, an extensive imaging centre, centralized hospital gas systems, uninterruptable power system, central sterilization, and a modern dietary kitchen. Outlying buildings contain the electricity generation plant, a laundry, incineration plant, a morgue, workshops, medical gas plant, and a hostel for patients' families.

2. The Spirit of Compassion
The spirit of compassion inspired by Amma is reflected most in the services AIMS gives to its patients. Many who seek help are very poor, often being referred to AIMS by doctors, branch ashrams and Amma's medical camps. The fundamental principle behind which the hospital operates is compassionate service, not just providing this quality of care to the poor, but teaching the value of selfless service to the staff. The hospital has started a post-graduate training program in medical technology and nursing and is training staff currently serving at the various medical clinics of the Order for a life of service in the medical profession. The hospital has received affiliation with the Mahatma Gandhi Hospital for Hospital Management Training and offers a bachelors degree in nursing and medical lab technology.

Mobile Tele-Medicine Unit