Aster Medcity is a quaternary care healthcare centre in the city of

Kochi Kochi (), also known as Cochin ( ) ( the official name until 1996) is a major port city on the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea, which is a part of the Arabian Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of K ...

and one of the largest in

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. It is the flagship hospital of Aster DM Healthcare, a healthcare conglomerate founded by

Azad Moopen Azad Moopen (born 15 April 1953) is an Indian healthcare entrepreneur. He is the developer of many healthcare facilities in Asia-Pacific. He is also the chairman and managing director of Aster DM Healthcare, a healthcare conglomerate in the Mid ...

. This was the third venture of the group in Kerala, after

Aster MIMS 'Aster MIMS'' (full name - Aster Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences) is a NABH accredited 950-bed super-specialty hospital located in Kozhikode, India. It is located on Mini Bypass Road, Opp Kovilakam Residency Govindapuram, Kozhikode, Ker ...

and DM Wayanad Institute of Medical Sciences (DMWIMS).

Overview

Aster Medcity
is a 5.5 billion waterfront facility located along Kutti Sahib Road in

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, a

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and its 40-acre campus is situated on the banks of the backwaters of Kochi. The hospital complex, designed by HKS Architects, has a built up space measuring a total of 62,710 square metres. The hospital is 7 km from the city center and is accessible through the

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Edappally railway station Edappally (Station code:IPL) is a railway station of the Southern Railway Network in Edappally, Kochi, India. This station handles mainly passenger trains in Shoranur – Cochin Harbour section and a few express trains. The railway station ...

is 7.3 km away and the nearest airport is

Kochi International Airport Cochin International Airport is an International airport serving the city of Kochi, in the state of Kerala, India. Located at Nedumbassery, about northeast of the city centre, Cochin International Airport is first of its kind which is develo ...

, 24.7 km from the hospital by road. The distance to the

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is 7.9 km at Edappally bye-pass junction where Lulu Mall, the largest shopping mall in the country, is located. The hospital has an in-patient capacity of 670 beds and has 24 hour emergency and accident trauma care facilities. The hospital has been functioning since September 2014 after a soft launch but the official dedication ceremony was on 6 May 2015, when the institution was inaugurated by the former president of India, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. The hospital plans to add 500 more beds in its second phase of expansion.

Facilities

The hospital has a general clinical division which includes Internal medicine, General surgery, Cilinical imaging, Anesthesia and critical care, Emergency, Pulmonology, otorhynolaryngology, Dermatology, Craniomaxillofacial surgery, Dental sciences, Infectious diseases and infection control, Psychiatry and Nuclear medicine. It also has eight centres of excellence such a
Cardiac SciencesOrthopedicsNeurosciences
Nephrology and Urology, Oncology, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Women's Health and Child and Adolescent Health, each staffed by independent medical teams composed of specialists, nursing and ancillary staff and technicians. Aster Medcity has facility for Minimal Access Robotic Surgery (MARS) using

da Vinci Surgical System The Da Vinci Surgical System is a robotic surgical system that uses a minimally invasive surgical approach. The system is manufactured by the company Intuitive Surgical. The system is used for prostatectomies, and increasingly for cardiac ...

and is reported to be the first hospital in Kerala to provide the service. The system employs telesurgical master-slave robotic system and the surgery is carried out using robotic arms instead of human hands. The Diagnostics division is equipped with 3 Tesla Digital

MRI Scanner The physics of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) concerns fundamental physical considerations of MRI techniques and technological aspects of MRI devices. MRI is a medical imaging technique mostly used in radiology and nuclear medicine in order ...

, 256 slice CT Scanner, Digital Mammography system, The Dexa, Digital X-Ray, Time of Flight PET CT, Cath Lab Allura Clarity system, Flat panel Bi-plane Hybrid Cath Lab, Colour Doppler Systems electronic 4D Imaging and Ultrasound Machines with multi modal image fusion. The clinical laboratory which conducts Biochemistry, Haematology, Bacteriology, Mycology, BS Level 3 Tuberculosis, Serology, Immunology, Histopathology, Neuropathology, Renal pathology, Pulmonary pathology, Haematopathology, Bone Pathology and Onco pathology tests, is integrated with the hospital information system. The hospital has an ambulance service, a pharmacy and a rehabilitation centre. A blood bank is also operational round the clock in the hospital

Other services

Aster Medcity is linked to Aster Foundation, an independent charitable

non governmental organization A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government. They are typically nonprofit entities, and many of them are active in ...

, engaged in providing free medical assistance to financially compromised patients. The hospital serves as a referral healthcare centre for patients from the

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region. The group has opened help desks in Qatar and Oman for this purpose.

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* * {{Health in Kerala , state=collapsed 2015 establishments in Kerala Hospitals in Kochi Hospitals established in 2015

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