| Caritas Hospital | |
| Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Kottayam | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Thellakom, Kottayam district, Kerala, India |
| Organisation | |
| Hospital type | Teaching |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 510 |
| Speciality | All major medical and surgical specialities |
| History | |
| Founded | 1962 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.caritashospital.org/ |
| Lists | |
| Other links | Hospitals in Kerala |
The Caritas Hospital is a hospital in Thellakom (near Adichira), Kottayam district, Kerala, India. The hospital is run by the Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Kottayam and is registered as a charitable organization.
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In 1962, Mar Thomas Tharayil, Bishop of Kottayam, in collaboration with the selected few benevolent German people (of the Caritas (charity) organization) started the venture of health care naming it Carithas naming after the Catholic organization Caritas Internationalis. The word itself adheres to the recommendations of the 1946 Bhore committee report to ensure medical care for every individual including those who cannot pay for it.
The hospital runs a full range of medical and surgical acute services. The newly constructed Bishop Makil block has a hundred and thirty pay ward rooms, seven operating theatres, and modernized facilities for obstetrics & gynecology, cardiothoracic surgery, centralized intensive care unit, modernized laboratory, and blood bank. It also has a ayurvedic treatment division.
The Caritas Cancer Institute is a 82-bedded centre with Medical, Surgical and Radiation Oncology departments as well as a Pain and Palliative Care division. It was inaugurated on February 24, 2003. The centre is equipped with a linear accelerator for radiation teletherapy.Dr.Mary Kalapurakal is the hed of the pain & palliative Dep. in caritas.She is the founder & 1st president of palliative assossiation in kottayam Dt.
The hospital runs the following institutions -
Caritas College of Pharmacy - conducts the D.Pharm course with an intake of 60 students per year.
Caritas School of Nursing - was founded in the year 1965 by Late Bishop Mar Thomas Tharayil. The School provides 3½ year General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) course with a strength of 50 students in each batch.
Caritas College of Nursing - trains for the BSc Nursing course and has an intake of 50 students per year.