Amritakripa Charitable Hospital

This charitable hospital located at Amritapuri, was inaugurated in 1996 and functions as a primary health care center for the villagers of the nearby fishing community and as a hospital for ashram residents and computer institute students and staff.

This facility has an emergency room that provides advanced resuscitation and initial care of acute medical and basic surgical emergencies. It also cares for the daily medical needs of the hundreds of ashram visitors. Specialty outpatient clinics are held completely free of cost to the needy public on a weekly basis in the fields of ophthalmology, otolaryngology (ENT), orthopedics, dermatology, gynecology, and endocrinology/diabetology. A weekly clinic and dispensary is provided in homeopathic medicine. The hospital is equipped with a laboratory for basic hematology and blood chemistry, urinalysis, etc. The pharmacy dispenses free medicines to more than one hundred daily, approximately 80% of which comes from sample donations.

The patient population includes over 8,000 villagers from the local fishing community, nearly 2000 ashram residents, and more than 1,000 students and staff members of the AICT computer institute and about 200 construction workers. Consultations and medicines are free for the poor. The doctors see about 200 patients daily but on Devi Bhava days and festivals they work throughout the night. Medical care is provided to an average of 5,600 patients each month.

Two moree such charitable hospitals have been recently inaugurated with Amma's guidance. The most recent one was in Kalpetta for a tribal community. A new surgical wing was opened in Rameshwaram district, in southern India that was funded by the President of India, Mr. A.P.J Abdul Kalaam who donated his one whole - year's salary for the project. He was inspired by the dedication and the urgency with which Amma's admirers work to benefit the society.

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