Aster Medcity: Leading the way in delivering quality and affordable healthcare

Set in a soothingly beautiful 40-acre waterfront campus in Kochi, Kerala, Aster Medcity - a 670-bed quaternary care facility - has been delivering quality healthcare at affordable costs. Envisioned by Chairman Dr. Azad Moopen, Aster Medcity has emerged as a medical destination since 2013 and attracts thousands of patients across the world today. The management is committed to keep upgrading technology and foster research, education and a distinctive work culture that is ethically and socially relevant.
As one of Kerala’s first JCI accredited quaternary care hospitals, Aster Medcity, has also been accredited by NABH, received NABH award for Nursing Excellence, Green OT (Green Operation Theatres) Certification by Bureau Veritas, within just a year of launch.
Comprehensive medical care

It offers quality healthcare under Centres of Excellence in Cardiac Sciences, Neurosciences, Orthopaedics & Rheumatology, Nephrology & Urology, Oncology, Women’s Health, Child & Adolescent Health, Gastroenterology & Hepatology and Multi-Organ Transplantation.
The multispecialty hospital within the campus provides unmatched care across Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Interventional Radiology, ENT, Plastic, Cosmetic & Microvascular Surgery, General Surgery, Psychiatry, Dentistry, Maxillofacial Surgery, Pulmonology, Ophthalmology, Nuclear Medicine, Centre for Fertility etc.
Clinical programs including Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Bone Marrow Transplant, Liver Transplant, Kidney Transplant, Parkinson and Movement Disorders treatment including Deep Brain Stimulation, Spine Surgery, Epilepsy Surgery and Cardiac Electrophysiology have benefited hundreds of people worldwide.
Aster’ Minimal Access Robotic Surgery program has successfully performed approximately 1,200 robotic-assisted surgeries by transplant surgeons, urologists and gynaecologists. The hospital also is one of the very few in the region to offer full-fledged ECMO facilities, reviving critically ill patients.
Medical marvels
Aster Medcity has performed numerous life-saving and changing procedures including one of India’s first synchronized leadless pacemaker procedures, pioneering the Silk Vista Flow Diverter stenting procedure in Kerala, Frozen Elephant Trunk procedure, massive bowel gangrene surgery and enabling a pregnancy using frozen embryos.
Healing ambience

Aster Medcity is designed, built, and operated upon a higher understanding that it is not just specialists or technologies that heal, but the ambience and the invisible systems that go on with clockwork precision. The tranquil atmosphere offers spacious rooms, lounges and facilities which assure privacy, access and peace.
Advanced technology and unparalleled infrastructure

Aster Medcity introduces one of the most advanced medical technologies and upgrades infrastructure regularly. It houses the da Vinci Robot to assist surgeons to perform minimally invasive surgeries with utmost precision across seven super specialities. Aster Medcity is amongst the first in South India to implement the world renowned ORI Fusion Digital Integrated Operation Theatres using Karl Storz OR1 Fusion. The revolutionary ICCA ICUs, account for over one-fourth of the beds. Furthermore, the centre has three Cath labs, including a hybrid Cath lab, 256-slice CT and Rapid Arc.
Academic affairs and research
Aster Medcity’s Academic and Research wing offers DNB programme accredited by the National Board of Examinations, Internal Medicine Training - Stage I accredited by Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board (UK), Fellowships in IDCCM, Arthroplasty, Transplant Anaesthesia, Neuro Anaesthesia, Cardiac Anaesthesia, Spine Surgery. The consultants regularly publish articles and papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Community engagement and CSR
Aster Medcity’s initiatives Aster Volunteers, Aster DM Foundation and Aster Sick Kids Foundation have touched many lives. Aster’s specialist doctors and nurses have been educating the masses on emerging health problems. Around 15% of employees are from surrounding villages.

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