Nature Life Hospitals are a group of eight hospitals in different parts of Kerala, run under the aegis Nature Life International, which has been set up to introduce a time-honoured tradition of health care that makes for disease-free healthy living, without the extremely harmful side-effects and prohibitively expensive modern medicine, namely allopathy.
Established in 1998 by Dr Jacob Vadakkanchery, a Gandhian activist and social worker, as a single health-care centre in Kerala, today regular nature cure camps are held in Mumbai, Delhi and Thailand.
Many who have been declared as beyond cure by other systems have their own story to tell after attending Nature Life sessions. Nature life owes its success to the support of eminent people like V.S.Achuthanandan, the Chief Minister of Kerala; Dr Sukumar Azhikode, a former vice-chancellor and a renowned writer/intellectual; Narmada-bachao Andolan fame Medha Patkar; Arundhathi Roy, the well-known activist and writer; Mary Roy of Pallikoodam fame; Justice P.K.Shamsuddin; Justice C.S.Rajan – and the list continues – have become ardent votaries of nature cure.