About CH Centre
CH Muhammad Koya Memorial Charitable Centre
The life of an individual is a constant reconciliation with the space between ill health and good health. When it comes to fatal diseases such as cancer, it is not just the patient who suffers, but also their families and loved. In the midst of such suffering and pain, Thiruvananthapuram’s CH Centre prides itself in offering a corner where people can seek peace and kindness. For cancer patients both within and outside Kerala, the centre remains a flicker of hope—a source of shelter and solace for patients and their loved ones seeking cancer treatment in hospitals such as RCC and Sree Chitra.
The CH Muhammad Koya Memorial Charitable Centre, located on Chalakkuzhi Road, adjacent to Thiruvanathapuram Medical College, was conceptualised in 2004, under the auspices of then–Education Minister, ET Mohammed Basheer, MP.
In 2006, the centre acquired 25 cents on Chalakkuzhi Road, where then–Chief Minister Shri Oommen Chandy and then–Minister for Industries and Social Welfare PK Kunhalikutty laid the foundation for a structure that could accommodate RCC and Sree Chitra patients as well as their caregivers.
As of today, the centre provides free food and accommodation to over 200 RCC and Sree Chitra patients and their caregivers at any given time. In addition to this, the centre provides financial support, blood donation, and free emergency and ambulance services for patients in need. Overall, each year, the centre caters to over 10,000 patients and their caregivers. Further, during Ramazan each year, the centre provides iftar and supper for more than 500 people other than those living at the centre, including wayfarers, residents of neighbouring lodges, and students from nearby colleges and institutes. With the aim of diversifying the centre’s capacities and expanding its services, the governing committee, chaired by ET Mohammed Basheer, MP, has decided to acquire the 17-cent plot of land adjacent to the centre. This new establishment will provide such services as a medical diagnostic centre, a pharmacy, a physiotherapy centre, and a dialysis centre, among others.
A decade-and-a-half long endeavour to provide medical care and food to thousands of patients, free from discrimination
Over 500 people fed, each day, every day
Today, CH Centre stands tall
The relentless efforts of several people have gone into making the centre what it is today. From its establishment till the present day, the centre has been at the receiving end of the kindness and generosity of various regimes, as well as the relentless service and kindness of its employees. From those who called for the ambulance and completed formalities, to those who comforted the patients and those who stood by them through it all—there are so many people to thank, who continue to volunteer their services even without remuneration; they are repaid only in the gratitude and prayers of those they have nursed back to health. Could such kindness be answerable to anyone but god?
