Caritas Hospital
Encyclopedia
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
.
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.
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 3 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.
Kottayam district
Kottayam is one of the 14 districts in the state of Kerala, India. The district has its headquarters at Kottayam town, located at 9.36° N and 76.17° E. According to the 1991 census, it is the first district to achieve highest literacy rate in the whole of India...
, Kerala
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. The hospital is run by the Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Kottayam
Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Kottayam
The Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Kottayam is a Roman Catholic eparchy in India, under the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, comprising Syro-Malabar faithful of the Knanaya ethnoreligious group.-History of the Archeparchy:...
and is registered as a charitable organization
Charitable organization
A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization . It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization (NPO). It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A...
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History
In 1962, Mar Thomas Tharayil, Bishop of Kottayam, in collaboration with the selected few benevolent German people (of the Caritas (charity)Caritas (charity)
Caritas Internationalis is a confederate of 164 Roman Catholic relief, development and social service organisations operating in over 200 countries and territories worldwide....
organization) started the venture of health care naming it Carithas naming after the Catholic organization Caritas Internationalis
Caritas (charity)
Caritas Internationalis is a confederate of 164 Roman Catholic relief, development and social service organisations operating in over 200 countries and territories worldwide....
. 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.
Services
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.Caritas Cancer Institute
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.Medical Education
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 3 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.