Media Release

Mangaluru, Mar 20: North Kerala’s famous hospital Aster Mims Kozhikode offers surgeries and treatment free of cost to financially-weak children. Surgeries like liver transplant costing around Rs 20 lac, bone marrow transplant costing around Rs 25 lac, kidney transplant costing around R 8 lac and cancer treatment among others are performed without charging any fee for the financially-weak children.

As part of the 20th-anniversary celebrations of Aster Mims in Kerala, the free of cost treatment is provided in accordance with the suggestion of Aster Mims chairman, Padmasree Dr Asad Mooppen. The funds for free surgeries and treatment are raised by Aster DM Foundation, Mims Charitable Trust and other Voluntary Service Organisations jointly.

Besides free-of-cost surgeries, Aster Mims Kozhikode is North Kerala’s one and the only hospital providing DBS (Deep Brain Stimulation); the most effective treatment for Parkinson’s disease. It is notable that Aster Mims offers treatments at a comparatively low cost too. Aster Mims Kozhikode has successfully conducted 50 plus liver transplant surgeries in this Covid-19 pandemic period. And it is the only hospital in North Kerala that completed more than 150 liver transplant surgeries successfully till now. It is admirable that the success rate of the surgeries is 90 % which is at par with the international standard. Among the 50 liver transplant surgeries conducted in the Covid-19 period, 6 numbers were free-of-cost surgeries offered to children from financially backward families. The hospital spent around Rs 1.25 crore for those surgeries. Aster Mims Kozhikode has completed over 1000 renal transplant surgeries till now.

India’s one of the best stroke centres is in Aster Mims Kozhikode and it has achieved recognition of the World Stroke Organisation. In addition, it is the best centre in North Kerala for Neuro Surgery, Neurology, Epilepsy Surgery, DBS, Heart Diseases Treatment, Heart Surgery, Paediatric Heart Surgery, Liver Transplant, Renal Transplant etc.