It is a known fact that health care in India is in a developing stage and Kerala has a significant place in health care in India. The per-capita expenditure on health is Rs. 92/- against all state average of Rs.79/- Still it is an irony that Kerala is backward in modern quality health care system, when compared to the neighbouring states.

According to World Health Organisation norms, it is desirable that there should be 1 doctor for 350 persons. However for the developing countries, WHO has recommended a much lower rate, ie. 1 doctor per one thousand only. Out of the total number of doctors, those directly involved in patient care are only 70%. This further dilutes the availability of practicing doctors and enhances the need for more doctors. Generally, there is a shortage of medical manpower in the country and this shortfall disproportionately impacted on the less developed and rural areas.

One of the great ironies of modern times is that even as medical science moves forward by leaps and bounds, the percentage of people who can afford good health care is constantly decreasing. Especially in India, we have the strange situation of people coming from abroad, for advanced treatment and yet rural India that feeds the entire country does not have access even to primary medical facilities.

The case of Malappuram, one of the backward districts of Kerala is also not very different. Though hospitals are in plenty, the common man has no recourse other than approaching a Govt. Hospital or Primary Health Centre and unfortunately, these health care points are a neglected lot. It was when the poor of this region were feeling deprived of quality health care at affordable costs, that there emerged a visionary of great zeal and vigor by name Dr. Fazal Ghafoor, the famous Neurologist and an academician of exceptional calibre stewarding the Muslim Educational Society, who decided to give shape to the ambitious dream of the Muslim Educational Society to build up a Medical College in the heart of Malappuram District, so that the imbalance between the rich and the poor in getting quality medical care could be addressed. The location chosen is Malaparamba, a remote area near Angadipuram in Malappuram District. Dr. Fazal Gafoor, the architect behind this herculian venture had the inner vision to foresee that this Medical College would be a boon to the thousands of rural people in and around this district by offering compassionate medicare. Though everybody believed that this ambitious project will remain in dreams only as the task of developing a not-for-profit hospital in Kerala where the poor could have access to advanced medical care in an atmosphere of love and compassion was not an easy one. And what seemed impossible to many did actually happen. After three years of its inception, now a top-class institution of medicine, academics and research – the MES Medical Research Centre - welcomes you at this small village of Malaparamba, as a monument of the cherished, fulfilled dream of the great founder of the Muslim Educational Society : Dr. Abdul Ghafoor