Joy Koothur

Co-founder

Founder of Shanthibhavan Palliative Hospital

Joy Koothur is the co-founder of Shanthibhavan Palliative Hospital [1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare from Thrissur.

Shanthibhavan Palliative Hospital

Founded in 2016 by the Franciscan Sisters of St. Clare at Pallissery, Arattupuzha in Thrissur district, Shanthibhavan is a free palliative hospital with no bills and no cash counters. It provides inpatient palliative care, a solar-powered free dialysis unit, ambulance services and round-the-clock home care for bedridden patients across the district.

Shanthibhavan Palliative Hospital reports the following, on its own site:

With 99 beds and a heart for service, we provide complete palliative care with no bills and no cash counters.
With the capacity to serve 40 patients, this facility provides life-saving kidney dialysis treatment completely free of charge to indigent patients
99 Bed Hospital 15 Home Care Vehicles 24/7 Emergency Care