Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (Amrita Hospital) has conducted India’s first double forearm transplant on a 21-year-old youth, Jith Kumar Saji, who lost both his hands below the elbow in 2013 due to electrical burns. This is the third double-hand transplant done at the hospital. In India, currently only Amrita Hospital is available with the capability to conduct such hand transplants.

Amrita Hospital was started in 1998 out of Amma’s desire to provide compassionate, high-quality healthcare regardless of a patient’s ability to pay. Since then, we have provided more than $85 million in charitable healthcare, and treated more than 4.1 million patients free of charge.

India’s very first two double hand transplants were carried out successfully at the Amrita Hospital, Kochi, in September 2014 and January 2015, respectively. Now, just over a year later, the lives of the first two recipients are returning to a new normal.

Doctors are in short supply across rural India, since most prefer to work abroad or in urban areas after their medical training. As a result, many of India’s remote tribal villages are left without any access to health care. Depending on a tribal family’s financial resources, sick or injured family members may need to be carried long distances on foot, before finally being transported by bus or taxi to the nearest hospital. But even then, they are likely to find the hospital overcrowded, understaffed, or lacking adequate supplies and equipment.

Due to persistent poverty and lack of access to medical care, people in Kenya to struggle with high levels of blindness and visual impairment. Since 2011, our volunteers from Spain in collaboration with “Vision Without Borders” have been holding free medical camps in multiple locations throughout Kenya, performing eye surgeries and providing prescriptions for medicine and glasses. More recently, eight of our volunteers held the fifth blindness prevention project in Kisii, Kenya—a small city located 200 miles from Nairobi— seeing more than 200 people.

Many villages in India do not have access to electricity. Villages that do receive power, do so intermittently and with frequent disruption, making the supply of electricity unreliable. Komalikudi, a tribal settlement in Kerala well-known for its abundant natural resources, is one such village.

Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Center (AIMS) has unveiled a Center of Excellence in Fetal Care for open fetal surgery – the first in Asia for treating complex and rare fetal conditions. With this, India becomes the fourth country in world after USA, France and Spain to offer open surgery on fetus.

Ammachi Labs is a multidisciplinary research center of Amrita University with a focus in technological innovation for social impact in the field of computer-human interaction, haptics, multimedia and virtual reality, with application areas in education, health care, defense and disaster preparedness. Ammachi Labs extends Amrita University’s unswerving focus on providing effective value-based education to include skill development at all levels and in all disciplines.

Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi installed the da Vinci Surgical System, a robotic surgical platform, in December 2014. Two surgeries has been performed using the da Vinci Surgical System.

The da Vinci Surgical System is a tool that utilizes advanced, robotic technologies to assist your surgeon with your operation. It does not act on its own and its movements are controlled by the surgeon. The system is an advanced robotic platform designed to expand the surgeon’s capabilities and offer an option to open surgery.

Doctors of Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center have successfully tansplanted India’s first hand transplant, rare surgery that has been done in 110 cases so far around the world but it will be known only after two weeks whether the body of the recipient has accepted it or not as is the case in many such surgeries.
The surgery was conducted on Tuesday for over 16 hours on a 30-year-old youth, who had lost his hands in a train accident. The transplanted organ was taken from a brain-dead 24-year-old accident victim with same bloood group.