Ministries

HEALTH CARE

HEALTH CARE

Taking to heart the call of the divine healer Jesus Christ, St. Francis saw Jesus in the lepers, and founding mothers rendered their loving care to orphans and the homeless. Inspired by their missionary spirit our 44 Sisters serve in the healthcare field. The Sisters provide selfless service in hospitals and dispensaries at home and abroad, as well as in Pain and Palliative Care Centers, De-addiction Centers, and Rehabilitation Centers for the Mentally and Physically Handicapped.

Murickassery Alphonsa Hospital, established in 1993, has been providing relief to the people of high-range for the last 28 years. The hospital, which has 200 beds, has 14 doctors, 30 sisters and 45 other staff serving in 10 different departments. There are three beds set aside to provide free care to poor. In the Dialysis Unit of the hospital, 50 patients are given 2% of the cost of treatment free of cost. Many people benefit from the monthly medical camp and PFT test. Provides free school health program, pre-marriage guidance, pastoral care, counseling, home care, posthumous care, and ambulance services. The hospital authorities take care to provide all the necessary assistance to the health insurance.

The Pain and Palliative Care Center was opened on June 7, 2000, at Murickassery, with the goal of providing comfort through loving care to patients suffering from life-threatening diseases such as cancer and AIDS. Here, there is a team consisting of doctors, nurses, sisters, other staff members and volunteers to perform the ministry without remuneration. This Palliative Care Center is able to bring the dying cancer patients of Idukki and the adjoining districts to a peaceful journey to God. The perpetual adoration, preaching and counseling conducted by this center is a relief to those who come with a broken heart.

'Sehion Uttussala' which opened in 2016 to provide free lunch to local brothers and sisters who do not have a single meal, is of great benefit to the poor people of the locality, patients in the Palliative Care, and the bystanders those caring for them.