Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Center, Kochi (AIMS)

Amrita Hospital, formerly known as Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) is a multi-speciality tertiary care hospital based in Kochi, India. It is attached to Amrita University school of medicine and one of the largest medical facilities in Ind e and one of the largest medical facilities in India with a total built-up area of over 3.33 million sq.ft, spread over 125 acres of land.[1] It is a 1,350-bed hospital which supports an annual patient volume of about 800,000 outpatients and 50,000 inpatients. It was founded by Mata Amritanandamayi and inaugurated on 17 May 1998 by the then Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The Mata Amritanandamayi Math is its parent organisation. The campus also houses medical school, dentistry, nursing, health sciences, pharmacy schools and school of nanosciences and molecular medicine of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Ron Gottsegen is the executive director and Prem Nair is the medical director of the institution. Dr.Gireesh Kumar K.P. is the Principal/Dean of Amrita School of Medicine. The hospital has got accreditation from the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) for its laboratories and the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH) for the hospital overall. In 2022, Amrita School of Medicine was ranked the eighth best medical college in India by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in their annual NIRF rankings. The Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology and Microbiology, Amrita School of Dentistry hosted and organized the XX Annual State Conference and the X Post graduate Convention of the Kairali. The Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology celebrated the National Oral Pathologist’s Day as part of the Nation-wide celebrations to mark the birth anniversary of India’s first Oral Pathologist.