NS Co-operative Hospital in Kollam becomes first cooperative society in India to win ICA’s Cooperative Global Excellence Award

NS Co-operative Hospital, Kollam, has won the Cooperative Global Excellence Award from the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA), the planetary assemblage for cooperative movements.

N.S. Hospital is the archetypal cooperative nine successful India to person the planetary excellence grant and it was selected from 57 nominations from 51 countries successful the Asia-Pacific region. The grant was announced astatine the 17th General Assembly, which concluded connected Friday (November 28, 2025), successful Colombo, Sri Lanka. This is besides the archetypal clip worldwide that the Global Excellence Award has been presented to a infirmary cooperative.

The grant recognised the hospital’s superior show crossed respective cardinal criteria, including the palmy completion of innovative projects, beardown and sustainable growth, fiscal security, effectual societal work programmes, promotion of economical empowerment, unsocial contributions to the cooperative movement, fulfilment of biology responsibility, and the assurance of accrued employment opportunities. Hospital president P. Rajendran accepted the grant from ICA planetary president Ariel Guarco and Asia-Pacific determination president Chandrapal Singh.

The hospital, which began successful 2006 with lone 60 beds and 8 departments, has contiguous grown into the largest cooperative infirmary successful the state with 500 beds and 39 departments. The installation integrates cutting-edge, low-cost technologies—including robotic surgery, an artificial intelligence-equipped cath lab, ART lab, motorcycle ambulance and paperless documentation—to service implicit 7 lakh patients annually. Currently the infirmary is the 3rd largest leader successful the State’s cooperative sector.