Medical College Kottayam

Medical College Hospital at Arpookara started functioning on 14.04.1970 with a humble beginning. Construction of ABC and EFG blocks of Medical College Hospital were completed during 1969 & 1970 respectively.
As an initial step, General Medicine & Surgery Departments were shifted from Dist. Hospital, Kottayam to Arpookara leaving the other departments continue to function at Dist. Hospital to Medical College Hospital Gandhinagar from 1970 to 1975.The bed strength was 837.
Gradually, the main hospital has grown up and at present the bed strength is 1471 with 25 clinical departments including all specialty and super specialty with all diagnostic and therapeutic facilities