Baby Memorial Hospital, Kozhikode

Baby Memorial Hospital in Kozhikode is a 490-operational-bed tertiary hospital that began in 1987. Its campus on Indira Gandhi Road includes 100 ICU beds, 23 emergency beds and 161 day-care beds, giving the hospital substantial capacity for both acute and planned treatment. Clinical programmes span cardiac sciences, oncology, neurosciences, orthopaedics, gastroenterology, nephrology, urology, paediatrics, emergency medicine and critical care.

Cardiac care is particularly detailed on the hospital’s own specialty pages. Interventional procedures include coronary angiography, primary and elective angioplasty with stenting, pacemaker and defibrillator implantation, CRT devices, balloon valvotomy, peripheral and carotid angioplasty, electrophysiology studies and radiofrequency ablation. Congenital heart defects can be treated with ASD, VSD and PDA device closure. The cardiothoracic service also performs bypass surgery, valve operations and selected minimally invasive cardiac procedures.

The Kozhikode facility has 16 operating theatres and three cardiac catheterisation laboratories, one of them a biplane lab. Imaging resources include PET-CT, two 1.5-Tesla MRI systems, Gamma Camera SPECT, digital mammography and digital X-ray. Dedicated cardiac intensive care and round-the-clock emergency cardiac services add support for people presenting with acute coronary or rhythm problems.

Patients with coronary artery disease, valve disease, arrhythmias, cancer, neurological disorders, kidney disease or major orthopaedic conditions may find this hospital relevant. The combination of high-capacity intensive care, advanced imaging, catheter-based treatment and surgical facilities is particularly useful when a condition requires several stages of diagnosis and treatment within one hospital admission.

For families comparing treatment settings in northern Kerala, the branch also offers a practical advantage when a cardiac or cancer patient develops complications that require emergency medicine, intensive care or another specialist service without transfer to a different institution.