A hospital was such a need in the locality that 90% of people who suffered from even minor ailments, had to travel at least 50 Kms to procure primary care. The National High Way on an entire length of 110 Kms between Coimbatore and Thrissur, didn’t have a single hospital where emergency trauma care could be availed. The region had witnessed through years a number of incidents of road traffic accident victims dying on their way to hospital just because they couldn’t get emergency medical care at the right time.
It was under these dismal circumstances that Crescent Medical Centre Ltd., came forward and put forth the trend-setting path in health care by establishing a Centre capable of providing excellent and immediate modern medical treatment.
The promoters of this noble venture include a group of motivated people for whom this land is their hometown and the inhabitants are their friends and relatives. So, to alleviate the tragic grievances of the people around them was deemed as their God ordained duty towards the community. Rather than monetary benefit, the prime motive behind this humane effort was to lend a helping hand to the society to alleviate their suffering and hardships.
Crescent Hospital started with an in-patient capacity of 50 beds and 11 doctors. The overwhelming response from the common public compelled us to increase the bed strength to 100 within 3 months and to 150 within a year. Today, crescent hospital has improvised a lot, both in quantity and quality, with its arduous service and sheer dedication. The hospital has an inpatient capacity of 300 beds, 25 doctors, and 300 paramedics
The project, which was initially formulated with a total capital investment of 20 million has now prospered and elaborated in due course of time. Today, Crescent Medical Centre is a joint venture of about 500 noble shareholders in an abroad India, with an estimated capital of 50 million Indian Rupees.
The growth of crescent hospital was steady along the entire span of ten years since its inception. In 1999, Crescent Hospital started its cardiac department and orthopaedic operation theatre with state of the art image intensifier, the C-Arm machine. Crescent School of Nursing was inaugurated on January 2001 by the then Health Minister Shri. V.C. Kabeer Master M.L.A. In 2004, a new block was inaugurated which relocated the Gynaecology and Paediatric departments and the Neonatal ICU. It also incorporates facilities to accommodate 150 in-patients, which increased the bed strength of Crescent Hospital to 300. Along with that a new Pharmacy was also added to the facilities.
In 2005 the College of Nursing was started with the sanctions from Kerala Nursing Council and Indian Nursing Council. Also in 2005 Crescent Hospital was added with the WiproGE spiral CT Scan machine, which is the first spiral CT scan in Palakkad district.
Crescent Medical Centre has procured 5 acres of scenic land on the banks of river gayathri, about a kilometer from the existing hospital, for constructing separate buildings for its Nursing institutions. The construction of the building has completed and the College of Nursing and School of Nursing has been accommodated in the new premises. Separate hostel building for nursing students has also been constructed and accommodates the whole students of the college and the School. A mosque has also been built up in the institution premises.
The project also envisages putting up other facilities like Staff Quarters, Principal Quarters, Paramedical Institutions etc in the plot and developing the area into a full-fledged allied medical institution.
In the year 2009 on its 13th birthday, crescent has announced the functioning of two more departments; the Rehabilitation and Geriatric care department and the Dialysis Unit. The rehabilitation and geriatric care department has a separate inpatient capacity of 50 beds in which Psycho social rehabilitation, deaddiction and geriatric care are given.
In the Hospital, the ventures expected in the near future include a Blood Bank, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Pacemaker Implantation Unit and Video graphic Laparoscopy.
