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“I consider this award as a reward
for whatever little I have been able to contribute in the
area of health care and to alleviate the suffering of the
needy people”, said Dr. Azad Moopen after receiving the prestigious
Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, India’s topmost honour for overseas
Indians.
Dr. Azad Moopen, Founder Chairman, DM Health Care and MIMS
India is a renowned physician turned enterpreneur based in
the UAE. He was honoured the award by Government of India
for his exceptional and meritorious contribution to social
and humanitarian causes, his leadership qualities and committment
to provide best medical facilities to the people of Gulf countries
and India.
Dr. Azad hails from a very respectable Moopen family of Kalpakanchery
in Malappuram, Kerala. His father, Mr. Ahamed Unni Moopen
was a social activist and was actively involved in the freedom
struggle of the country in 1940s.
Dr. Moopen has a brilliant academic record. Following his
graduation from Farooque College of Calicut, he did his MBBS
and passed out with a Gold Medal. He went on to do his MD
in General Medicine from the Government Medical College, Calicut
and diploma in Chest Diseases from Delhi University. He worked
as a lecturer in Calicut Medical College for five years. In
1987, he went to Dubai and started a successful career as
a practicing doctor. He established a chain of health care
institutions in the Middle East. He has 70 units which include
Hospitals, Policlinics and Pharmacies spread over UAE, Qatar,
Oman and Saudi Arabia. The group employs around 2,000 people
and plans to expand the chain from 70 to 300 by the year 2015.
Dr. Moopan is firmly committed to his motherland and is actively
involved in the development of health care activities and
humanitarian initiatives in India. He established the 600-bed
Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences (MIMS) at Calicut at
a cost of Rs. 60 crore in 2001. MIMS offers quality health
care at affordable cost to the people of Malabar. MIMS was
the first Multispeciality Hospital in India which received
accreditation from the National Accreditation Bureau of Hospitals
(NABH). Recently another MIMS hospital was inaugurated at
Kottakkal. The MIMS hospitals provide direct employment to
around 2,500 people.
The DM Group plans to set up similar hospitals in other parts
of the country. The DM Medicity at Kochi in an ambitious project
with an investment of Rs. 1,500 crores. MIMS Academy Trust
with Dr. Moopen as Chairman is setting up a campus in 32 acres
near Calicut. It has more than 1000 students in the various
disciplines of medical science. The MIMS Academy is looking
at establishing a Medical College soon in Mananthawadi of
Wayanad district. He is the Vice Chairman of the Social Advancement
Foundation of India (SAFI), a non-profit organisation is the
process of establishing a Deemed University in 450 acre land
Malabar. The major trust is to provide access to students
from backward communities to the areas of Science, Technology
and Management.
Dr. Moopen is also the Vice Chairman of 3 international schools
in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam in Saudi Arabia with a combined
strength of 600 students.
Dr. Moopen has been is the forefront of many philanthropic
and social activities. The DM Group envisioned the ‘Save Little
Heart’ programme in Dubai in 2009. He is the founder of M.A
Moopen Memorial School for the deaf at Kalpakanchery. MIMS
Charitable Trust under Dr. Moopen is extending free and subsidised
medical treatment to the poor. The trust established a rural
health centre in Vazhayur Panchayat near Calicut and adopted
7,000 BPL population for free medical care. He has also started
the MAM community Dialysis Centre in Badagara, Calicut to
provide free and subsidised dialysis to poor patients.
Dr. Azad is blessed with a very supportive family. His wife
Naseera helps him in his business and charitable work. His
eldest daughter, Alisha, is a Chartered Accountant married
to Navin. They are in New Castle, UK with son Noah. His second
daughter is a Business Management Graduate settled in Dubai
with her husband Anoop and daughter Layah. His youngest daughter,
Zeba, is studying MBBS at Manipal.
The philosophy of the DM group as defined by Dr. Azad Moopen
has been that health care is not a business and profit is
a by-product rather than the main goal. His strong belief
is that the resources that God has bestowed on him must be
used for the benefit of the needy.
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