REACH
The department does not wait for families to reach Kochi.
Seventy screening camps across twelve states and union territories, outreach clinics closer to home, and teaching teams sent to six countries. This is where the work happens. Who funds it, and how to join them, is set out on the Partners page.
A screening camp in progress. Most children are sent home reassured; a few are found in time.
Capacity building
Outbound clinical and training camps
The department travels outward as well as inward. Clinical and capacity-building
camps have been conducted in:
Sri Lanka
Camps · training
Nepal
Camps
Bangladesh
Camps
Vietnam
Camps
Uganda
Camps
Ethiopia
Camps
The first three paediatric cardiologists in Sri Lanka were trained here, with the Sri Lankan College of Paediatrics — the entire founding cohort for a country. Surgeons from Japan, China and Portugal have also been sent to Amrita by their own programmes for advanced training.
Outreach in India
Seventy camps, twelve states and union territories
Over 70 outreach screening camps have been run in partnership with NGOs, foundations and corporate donors, with more than 4,500 children screened. Many went on to life-saving surgery and intervention. The camps go, deliberately, to the regions where almost no children reach an operating table.
Jammu & Kashmir
Union territory
Uttar Pradesh
STATE
Bihar
STATE
Jharkhand
STATE
Meghalaya
STATE
Odisha
STATE
Maharashtra
STATE
Karnataka
STATE
Tamil Nadu
STATE
Keralam
STATE
Andaman & Nicobar
UNION TERRITORY
Lakshadweep
UNION TERRITORY
Children have also been brought to Kochi from Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia and The Gambia for operations they could not have had at home.
Regular outreach clinics also run closer to home, in Kozhikode, Palakkad and Kollam, so that follow-up after surgery does not require a journey to Kochi.
RECENT CAMPS
A selection from the last two years
September 2025
Jammu & Kashmir
March 2025
Ranchi, Jharkhand
February 2025
Ambasamudram, Tamil Nadu
January 2025
Mangalore, Karnataka
400 children
June 2024
Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu
February 2024
Trichy, Tamil Nadu
~150 Children
December 2023
Tamil Nadu
~270+ Children
Care beyond ability to pay
What has been given
away.
15,100
Children treated free of charge or at heavily subsidised cost since 1998.
₹91 cr
Value of that free and subsidised care.
₹50 L
The full Sitaram Jaipuria Foundation prize, donated by the department’s head to the Amrita Heart Care Foundation.
This is made possible by the hospital’s patient services team and by partnerships with NGOs, foundations, corporate donors and state governments. Three things a new partner can fund