VPS Lakeshore, also known as Lakeshore Hospital is a multi super-speciality Hospital in

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, India. It is located along

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, and is a 650-bedded facility with over 30 clinical departments. The hospital is headed by

Shamsheer Vayalil Shamsheer Vayalil Parambath (born 11 January 1977) is an Indian radiologist and businessman. He is the founder, chairman and managing director of VPS Healthcare Group, and the vice chairman and managing director of Amanat Holdings, a healthcare ...

, the founder and managing director of VPS Healthcare.

Profile

VPS Lakeshore Hospital and Research Centre Ltd was found by Dr.Philip Augustine registered as a public limited company in 1996 and started functioning as a multi-specialty hospital in January 2003. The hospital is accredited by the

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(NABH) and has 43

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and 10 operation theatres. It is one of the largest tertiary care hospital in the state and is managed by VPS Healthcare, which took over the management from

Philip Augustine Philip Augustine, an Indian gastroenterologist, specialist in gastrointestinal endoscopy and a hospital administrator from Ernakulam, Kerala. He founded the Lakeshore Hospital and Research Centre in 2003, one of the largest multispeciality hospi ...

in April 2016. It has air, water and surface ambulance services which was listed by the

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in 2004. Besides medical care, it also conducts several post graduate programs accredited by the

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. The second phase expansion of its facilities by adding 200,000 sq. ft. to house oncology, cardiology and gastroenterology departments are under development. The first pediatric bone marrow transplant, the first liver transplant and the first liver dialysis in Kerala and the first insulin pump insertion in South India are some of the reported achievements of the hospital. The new structure is supposedly open to public by mid 2018.

Awards and achievements

* VPS Lakeshore's 'HEART', which is a replica of the same organ was awarded the

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for the Largest Model of a Human Organ. The structure which is 31.81 ft tall and 22.88 ft wide was installed at the top of its new hospital block.

References

External links

* Hospitals in Kochi 2003 establishments in Kerala Hospitals established in 2003 {{India-hospital-stub