Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences

Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences has grown from a hundrd and fifteen bed multi-speciality hospital to an thousand two hundred bed super-speciality tertiary care referral health centre with an attached medical college hospital having an additional four hundred-bed facility. This massive health care infrastructure with over fifty clinical departments, a dozen para-clinical departments, having a built-up area of nine lake sq.ft spread over eighty acres of land supports.

With extensive facilities comprising twenty four modern operating theatres, two hundred and ten equipped intensive care beds, a fully computerised and networked hospital information system, a fully digitalised radiology department, a twenty four hour telemedicine service and a comprehensive well-equipped clinical laboratory, Amrita offers a total and comprehensive health solution comparable to the best hospitals in the world.
The educational institutions of Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, which include the School of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Pharmaceutical Sciences are part of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham offering educational programmes both at graduate and post graduate levels. Amrita University is a centre of excellence providing value-based medical education where the highest human qualities of empathy, compassion, dedication and sincerity are instilled.The campus also offers excellent opportunity for research with many ongoing projects approved and supported by the Indian Council of Medical Research, the Department of Science and Technology and other national and international research bodies.

Mata Amritanandamayi Math, a registered Public Charitable Trust headquartered at Amritapuri, Kollam, Kerala, was founded to disseminate the message of spirituality, universal love and selfless service to humanity, which shines through the life and teachings of the Divine Mother. It organises activities for the spiritual, educational, social and cultural advancement of mankind and the upliftment of the poor and the downtrodden. Some of the socio-welfare activities undertaken by the Math include medical services, numerous educational institutions, houses for the poor, pensions for destitute women, a home for senior citizens, orphanages, a hospice, a school for the speech and hearing impaired, plus many more.

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