Kerala enjoys a unique position in the health map of India. Our health standards are at par with the Western world. We have the lowest infant mortality and maternal mortality rate with the highest life expectancy in the country. However, unfortunately the modern epidemic of cardiovascular disease and Diabetes has become major health crises in Kerala.

The Heart Care Foundation has arrived not a day too soon. If the incidence of Heart disease in Kerala is simply staggering, its annual increase is extremely alarming. Various causes have been attributed to this phenomenon ranging from genetic predilections to life style perversions. This is an area for the specialists to discuss and give directions. I shall not venture into their domain.

“I understand that Dr. Jose Chacko Periyappuram who successfully conducted the first heart transplantation in Kerala, has started Heart Care Foundation in Kochi to provide Heart surgery for 1000 needy and financially backward patients of government medical colleges in a five year time. Being associated with such a noble service project of lions club international, I feel it is my duty to associate with Save a Heart, Save a Life, Save a Family project.”

His Excellency the Governor of Kerala Mr. R.L. Bhatia, other dignitaries on the dias, distinguished invitees, ladies and gentlemen,
Let me at the very outset express my profound thanks to the Heart Care Foundation for having invited me to render a felicitation address on this unique and memorable occasion of launching the foundation.

Clean Kerala, Healthy Kerala
A thousand heart patients should be saved from death
Life is God’s gift. It is our duty to preserve and develop it, at any cost. In this world of ours there is nothing more precious than life.