Welcome to a world of heightened health-consciousness, that is to a new era in healthcare, where global efforts in medical research and revolutionary breakthroughs have made the dread associated with ill health a thing of the past. The greatest gift God has entitled mankind to enjoy is health. Empowering people in all cultures and segments of society with necessary information and opportunities for health development is both an ethical and technical imperative. The order of Assisi Sisters of Mary Immaculate was founded by the Msgr. Joseph Kandathil to support his mission of caring for the unwanted and socially discarded lepers.Msgr. Joseph who devoted his entire life as a priest for mitigating the suffering of the lepers founded a Hospital in 1942.The hospital was constructed braving widespread protests against the setting up of an asylum for the leprosy patients at Cherthala.The 50 bed hospital came up on a plot gifted by one of the parishioners of the Muttom Forane Church where Fr. Joseph was then serving as Assistant Vicar. As Fr. Joseph’s was an act that had few parallels in the province of the east while Travancore, the government also provided him substantial help in pursuance of his cause. In 1955 the Hospital was expanded into a 200 bed hospital.