Little Flower Hospital Trust

Description

The hospital had a very humble beginning in 1936 Angarnaly was a tiny village with barely any facility to address the health needs of the local community It was with this in mind that the Archdiocese of Emakulam started this hospital The hospital was named after StTheresa of Lisieux who is the patron saint of the hospital She is lovingly called The Little Flower

Little Flower Hospital and Research Centre is a not for profit organization registered as a charitable trust It is an 850 bedded multi speciality hospital It also Imparts training in various fields of Medical Paramedical and Nursing care

It is also a recognized research centre The hospital is conveniently located with easy access by road rail and air Cochin International Airport is only 4 km away and the nearest railway station is only 15km away from the hospital The district headquarters Ernakularn is also near to the hospital Angamaly is the meeting point of National Highway 47 and the Main Central Road

History

Little Flower Hospital Trust has a history of seven decades of service It was started on 9th Feb 1936 as a small dispensary with one doctor one compounder a nurse cum mid wife and a ward boy At that time the inhabitance of Angamaly was struggling to have some facility for medical aid even at times of extreme necessity When all the other attempts failed they appealed to the Archbishop of Ernakulam and he asked the parish priest of Angamaly to start a dispencery under the auspices of the Archdiocese This fact is of at most importance regarding the conducting of the hospital It was started because of the felt need from the part of the people and not as a profit making concern This aspect is being respected throughout Even when it grew into a hospital with 800 beds and 22 departments some of them of global reputation the need of the people were given priority Hence the Archdiocese of Ernakulam felt that the hospital should be registered as a charitable Trust and it was so registered in the year 1994 Taking it as a God given mission reverent Fathers Nuns and lay people committed themselves to make Little Flower Hospital a big institution to meet the needs of the people Free or subsidized treatment was always made available from the funds generated by the institutions and received as donations from generous people and organizations

The hospital grew from the small dispensary into a multispecialty hospital gradually by adding departments infrastructure beds doctors nurses and other staff The following departments are functioning today in the Hospital Medicine surgery Ophthalmology Paediatrics Anesthesia Hematology Dental ENT Dermatology Cardiology Neurology OampG Snake Bite Unit Nephrology Urology Psychiatry etc

Eye care was started in Kerala first in Little Flower Hospital Today it has reached global standards It has got all the subspecialties like Glaucoma Squint Uvea Retina Cornea etc The first eye clinic in private sector was started at Little Flower Hospital We are today supplying the excess of eye donations to All India Medical Institute Delhi We also have a fullfledged Blood Bank

Eye camps and school screening programs are conducted all over Kerala And the patients from the camp are carried to the hospital for free cataract operation The President of India included the Ophthalmology Department of Little Flower Hospital among the five institutions chosen by him to award Rs Two Lakh each for giving free spectacles to school children The department is conducting awareness programs in rural areas to make people understand that there is no need to go around blind when there are possibilities to regain eyesight and warn them to take precautions against causes leading to loss of eye sight

Our diagnostic center has got radio diagnostic and Investigation Equipments In the project envisaged there is a comprehensive diagnostic center We have also planned to enhance the capacity and efficiency of every department

Besides Little Flower Hospital amp Research Centre which is the main activity of the trust the trust has the following activities The Trust has a hospital annex at Koonammavu Known as Little Flower Hospital Annex The following other institutions in paramedical sciences are owned and operated by the trust

Little Flower Institute of Medical Science and Research LIMSAR
Little Flower Medical Research Centre LFMRC Recognized by Mahatma Gandhi University
Little Flower College of Nursing Angamaly
Little Flower School of Nursing Angamaly

At present the Trust has 17 Acers of land facing the Main road The hospital has got 22 departments and more than 105 doctors There are more than 500 staff nurses 200 Bsc Nursing students and 150 General nursing students Other paramedical courses like Optometry Physiotherapy Lab technician Course Medical Records etc are giving professional opportunity to the young people Total strength of employees is nearly 1500 The Ophthalmology department is conducting eye camps and school screening programs with a view of eradicating blindness Our snakebite unit deals with more than 700 envenemation cases a year with very few mortality

More then 1500 patients visits the Out patient department daily Our trauma care unit is handling nearly 150 cases a day More than 5000 people are coming to the hospital daily The poor people are given special considerations by way of very law rates and further concessions but the quality of treatment is not depending on their social or financial status The trust is committed to make available quality treatment to the common man

Little Flower Hospital Trust was started as a small dispensary and grew into an 800bedded multi specialty hospital Today we are confident that we can develop it into a comprehensive healthcare center retaining our social commitments and contributing to developments and research in the sector