To simply describe it, this is a hospital for palliative care for people who are terminally ill. It is a hospital cum research and training institute that stands in a corner of the Calicut Medical College Campus. It caters to the poor and it is run completely free of charge to its patients. It has a built up area of more than 40,000 sq ft. which holds the out-patient block, in-patient rooms, kitchen, dining room, offices, lecture halls, hostel and guesthouse. Since it stands on a nine acre campus, it can be expanded as the need arises.

And yet, it looks far from being what we normally consider a hospital. It has coloured walls and every patient, instead of looking at the ceiling all the days of his or her stay there, can look out through a window into a courtyard, where there are plants and activity of some kind. Wheel chairs can go any where on ramps and bathrooms are spacious so helpers can bathe the infirm. The patient blocks are all built in single storeys whereas the institutional wings are two storey structures. There are many verandahs and courtyards, the roofs are at different levels making the elevation interesting from outside and inside. These features bring warmth to the atmosphere of the hospital, by enhancing the play of sunlight and shade, contributing a natural effect, unlike the coldness of flat artificial lighting.

Care has been taken to ensure that patients who come from humble dwellings do not feel out of place in an efficient city hospital. The features of the design encourage social interaction so that patients who come from humble dwellings do not feel out of place in an efficient city hospital. The four single rooms are for the critically ill or for patients who may be violent, or those with open cancerous wound. The waiting area is designed with considerations for critically ill patients. Unlike other waiting rooms, it has beds for patients to lie down and wait for doctors to come out to them and do their examinations have been carefully put together to encourage as much social interaction as possible. There are only four single rooms and they are for the critically ill, or those who may be violent, or those with open cancerous wounds. The waiting area has been designed with consideration for critically ill patients. It has beds unlike other waiting rooms for patients to lie down and for the doctors to come out to them and examine them.

The hospital has a Quiet Room with a Zen-like quality of peace, which has no religious bias and can be used by people of all faiths.