UAE-based KEF Holdings, a private family-owned investment firm, has backed one of India’s first medical wellness destinations with a reported INR8 billion (US$90.4 million, €78.1 million, £68.9 million).
Tulah Clinical Wellness will officially open in Kerala in February. The 30-acre resort combines clinical medicine, longevity science and Eastern healing traditions, offering treatments ranging from ayurveda and Tibetan medicine to hyperbaric oxygen therapy, photobiomodulation and cryotherapy.
“Tulah is my opportunity to create a legacy of clinical healing that bridges the scientific and the spiritual,” says KEF founder Faizal Kottikollon. “The beauty of clinical wellness is that you heal people – and that’s the biggest blessing you can get in life.”
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Kottikollon is an engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist whose social impact projects include the development of Tulah’s sister institution, Meitra Hospital, realised with doctors from the Cleveland Clinic.
A broader wellbeing ecosystem presents a new model that’s locally rooted yet globally connected
Set on 9 acres, the hospital opened in 2017 and was India’s first prefab hospital. It marked the beginning of Kottikollon’s mission to make premium healthcare more widely available.
Tulah Clinical Wellness extends this vision. The aim is for the Kerala flagship to strengthen state tourism by attracting visitors from the GCC, Europe and South Asia. It also sits at the centre of a broader wellbeing ecosystem.
Urban Tulah, a city-based clinical wellness hub, will debut in Dubai next year, providing continuity of care. Additional hubs are planned for Singapore, London, Berlin and New York City and the long-term vision is to establish 100 globally. Meanwhile, Tulah at Home, a new at-home programme, is set to deliver personalised data-led support into daily life. Together, they represent a new model of integrative healing that’s locally rooted yet globally connected.
Data-led personalisation
Tulah Clinical Wellness in Kerala will open with 65 suites and scope to expand to more rooms once the full phased build is complete. It features 14 treatment spaces and one of the world’s largest sound healing domes.
Programming at Tulah starts with an extensive pre-arrival assessment to evaluate physical, mental and emotional health. Additional tests can be conducted onsite if needed.
Metrics on muscle density, cardio function, immune and gut health, stress and quality of life are captured through the Tulah Life Index, a proprietary tool that informs deeply personalised plans ranging from four-day health discoveries to 21-day oncology recovery stays.
Healing people is the biggest blessing you can get in life
Each guest follows one of two pathways: The Wellness Journey, focused on prevention or The Clinical Journey, supporting chronic conditions and recovery.
Genomic and dosha insights
Programmes draw from a broad range of therapeutic systems including ayurveda, TCM, sowa-rigpa, cupping, moxibustion and lymphatic drainage. Movement, nutrition and cognitive therapies are tailored using both genomic insights and dosha profiling, an uncommon dual approach that blends modern science with traditional wisdom.
For those requiring deeper clinical support, the facility offers comprehensive lab panels, genetic testing, x-rays, CT and MRI scans, as well as an operating theatre, ICU and medical suites. Guests with complex needs can access more than 200 specialists at Meitra Hospital, located 20 minutes away.
“Each aspect of the space serves another,” says Kottikollon. “By integrating multidisciplinary approaches, we bring traditional healing practices and medical science together in a way that feels whole.”
