Muvattupuzha General Hospital gets an AMRIT pharmacy and health lab, run by HLL

10 November 2026

The Hospital Management Committee has approved the Union Health Ministry's AMRIT pharmacy and health lab projects for Muvattupuzha General Hospital. The work will be carried out by Hindustan Latex Limited, a central public sector undertaking, and will add a modern laboratory, a pharmacy and further super-speciality services at the hospital. The free laboratory tests and the free medicines the government already supplies will continue without any change. On top of those free services, the aim is to make more modern and specialised tests and medicines available at low rates. Ultrasound scans, different kinds of CT scans and speciality blood tests will be offered cheaply, which will spare ordinary patients the cost of private laboratories. Medical products needed for super-speciality treatment, such as dialysis medicines and orthopaedic implants, will be available at up to 50 per cent below market price. The step followed a request letter from municipal chairperson Joyce Mary Antony and the intervention of Dean Kuriakose MP, after which an HLL team visited the hospital and assessed the project.