The Kerala Kaumudy 2024 Excellence Award was presented to Dr. K.K. Gopinathan, Chairman of Edappal Hospitals Pvt. Ltd. (EHPL) and founder of the CIMAR group of women's hospitals, in recognition of his lifetime of extraordinary contribution to Indian healthcare. The award was respectfully presented by Honourable Kerala Legislative Assembly Speaker Shri A.N. Shamseer.
A Lifetime of Service, Recognised
The Kerala Kaumudy Excellence Awards are among Kerala's most distinguished annual honours — presented to individuals and institutions whose work has made a lasting and meaningful impact on society. To receive this award is to be acknowledged not by one's peers alone, but by the broader public and cultural life of the state.
For Dr. K.K. Gopinathan, this recognition reflects a career spanning several decades — built on a singular commitment to making world-class obstetric, gynaecological, and fertility care accessible to women across Kerala and beyond. From the founding of Edappal Hospitals to the establishment of the CIMAR network of NABH-accredited women's hospitals, his work has quietly transformed the healthcare landscape of an entire region.
This recognition belongs to every patient who trusted us, every doctor who joined our mission, and every family whose life we were privileged to be part of.
Dr. K.K. Gopinathan — Chairman, EHPL & Founder, CIMARPresented by Honourable Speaker A.N. Shamseer
The award was presented by Shri A.N. Shamseer, the Honourable Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly — a mark of the esteem in which Dr. Gopinathan is held not only within the medical community but within the broader civic and public life of Kerala. The ceremony brought together leaders from healthcare, public life, and culture in celebration of a career defined by purpose and perseverance.
Dr. K.K. Gopinathan receives the Kerala Kaumudy 2024 Excellence Award from Honourable Kerala Legislative Assembly Speaker Shri A.N. Shamseer.
What This Award Means for the Group
For the Gopinath Healthcare Group — of which All Season Herbs Pvt. Ltd. is a part — this award is a reminder that the values underpinning every entity within the group are the same: patient first, quality non-negotiable, and recognition earned rather than sought.
The same founding family and founding philosophy that drove Dr. Gopinathan to build one of Kerala's foremost healthcare institutions is the foundation on which All Season Herbs was built — bringing the same standard of rigour, transparency, and long-term thinking to pharmaceutical-grade herbal extract manufacturing.
