The aim of the society is to provide financial assistance to poor patients suffering from terminal diseases.

Eligibility

• The annual family income of the patient should be less than three lakh rupees.

Benefits

• The medical assistance through the society is up to Rs.50,000. Financial aid is allowed only once per patient. If any other government grant (CHIS/CHIS PLUS etc.) is available, the cost of treatment in excess of that amount can be allowed up to Rs.50,000.

Documents required

• A certificate from the treating doctor stating that the patient has incurred the expenses.

Approved treatments and surgeries to be covered under this scheme

• Brain surgery
• Open heart surgery
• Kidney Transplantation surgery
• Liver transplant surgery
• Pacemaker Insertion
• Angioplasty
• Cancer (Surgery, Chemotherapy, Radiation)
• Dialysis
• Tumor removal
• Orthopedic surgeries, resection and prosthesis, tumor of lumbar thoracic vertebral bones, knee replacement
• Sickle cell anemia
• Guillain–Barré syndrome
• Hip Replacement Surgery
• Hysterectomy
• Infertility treatment
• Severe liver diseases
• Paralysis (only for treatment from approved Ayurvedic Govt. Hospitals)

List of hospitals authorized to provide medical assistance under this scheme

• Srichithira Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology Thiruvananthapuram
• Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram
• Government Medical College Hospital Thiruvananthapuram
• Government Medical College Hospital, Alappuzha
• Government Medical College Hospital, Thrissur
• Government Medical College Hospital, Kottayam
• Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode
• Government Medical College Hospital, Kalamassery, Kochi
• EMS Memorial Cooperative Hospital, Panambi, Perinthalmanna,
• Cooperative Hrudayalaya Medical College Hospital, Pariyaram, Kannur
• Malabar Cancer Centre, Thalassery, Kannur
• Sri Avittam Thirunal Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram
• Institute of Maternal and Child Health, Kozhikode
• General Hospital, Ernakulam
• Institute of Child Health, Kottayam.
• Government Medical College Hospital, Malappuram
• Government Medical College Hospital, Idukki
• Women and Child Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram
• Women and Child Hospital, Kollam
• Women and Child Hospital, Alappuzha
• Women and Child Hospital, Ernakulam
• Hospital for Women and Child, Palakkad
• Women and child Hospital, Kozhikode
• Women's and Child Hospital, Kannur
• General Hospital Thiruvananthapuram
• General Hospital, Pathanamthitta
• General Hospital, Adoor, Pathanamthitta
• General Hospital, Alappuzha
• General Hospital, Kottayam
• Panakkad Saidh Muhammadali Shihab Thangal Memorial General Hospital, Malappuram
• General Hospital, Kozhikode
• General Hospital, Kalpetta, Wayanad
• General Hospital, Thalassery, Kannur
• General Hospital, Kasaragod
• General Hospital, Neyyatinkara, Thiruvananthapuram
• District Hospital, Perurkada, Thiruvananthapuram
• District Hospital, Kollam
• District Hospital, Kozhancherry, Pathanamthitta
• District Hospital, Mavelikara, Alappuzha
• District Hospital, Kottayam
• District Hospital, Aluva, Ernakulam
• District Hospital, Painav, Idukki
• District Hospital, Thrissur
• District Hospital, Palakkad
• District Hospital, Tirur
• District Hospital, Vadakara, Kozhikode
• District Hospital Mananthavadi, Wayanad
• District Hospital, Kannur
• District Hospital, Kanzhangad, Kasaragod

Ayurvedic medical institutes included in the stroke treatment 

• Ayurveda Medical College Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram
• Ayurveda Medical College Hospital, Tripunithura, Ernakulam
• Ayurveda Medical College Hospital, Kannur
• District Ayurveda Hospital Thiruvananthapuram
• District Ayurveda Hospital, Kollam
• District Ayurveda Hospital, Alappuzha
• District Ayurveda Hospital, Pathanamthitta
• District Ayurveda Hospital, Kottayam
• District Ayurveda Hospital, Idukki
• District Ayurveda Hospital, Ernakulam
• District Ayurveda Hospital, Thrissur
• District Ayurveda Hospital, Malappuram
• District Ayurveda Hospital, Palakkad
• District Ayurveda Hospital, Kozhikode
• District Ayurveda Hospital, Kannur
• District Ayurveda Hospital, Wayanad
• District Ayurvedic Hospital, Kasaragod

Application Form

• Click the link SMAP on the website www.dhs.kerala.gov.in

Documents required 

• Income certificate issued by the concerned Village Officer.
• Copy of patient's Voter's Identity Card or Aadhaar Card

Procedure

• The eligible person for Medical Assistance is notified by letter, and an acknowledgment of receipt is obtained in advance. The financial assistance is then sent to the patient by registered post as an account payee check through the bank.
• Procedure for obtaining financial assistance for heirs in the event of the patient's death after submitting the application
• For this application should be made on white paper by the heir of the deceased to the member secretary of the society.

Documents to be attached

• Attested copy of the patient's death certificate.
• Attested copy of Legal Inheritance Certificate issued by Tehsildar.

Address to which application should be sent

Member Secretary
Society for Medical Assistance to the Poor
Directorate of Health Department, (Near General Hospital)
Thiruvananthapuram 695035
Phone: 0471 2519257 (2 PM to 5 PM)