Lisie Hospital, Kochi
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The Mar Augustine Kandathil Memorial Lisie Hospital is a hospital near Kaloor, in Kochi, India. It was founded in memory of Mar Augustine Kandathil, shortly after his demise, according to his original vision and plans, in 1957, as a token of his devotion to St. Thérèse de Lisieux. It is managed by the Archdiocese of Ernakulam.[1] Lisie Hospital is a tertiary referral hospital and one of the largest in Cochin. The Lisie Heart Institute is a major interventional Cardiology and Cardiothoracic centre. It performed nearly 4000 interventional cardiac procedures and cardiac surgeries in 2006. Their team of doctors was reconstituted in 2008 with the joining of Jose Chacko Periappuram as the Head of Cardiac Surgery and Jacob Abraham as the head of Cardiac Anaesthesia. The present team was instrumental in performing the first total arterial bypass surgery on a beating heart and heart transplantation under Dr. Jose Chacko in the state of Kerala.
Mar Augustine Kandathil Memorial Lisie Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Kaloor, Ernakulam, Kerala, India |
Coordinates | 9.9884°N 76.2880°E / 9.9884; 76.2880 |
Organisation | |
Care system | Tertiary |
Type | Referral hospital |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes |
History | |
Opened | 1956 |
Links | |
Website | http://www.lisiehospital.org/ |
Lists | Hospitals in India |