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Welcome to CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE &
HOSPITAL
According to
the Constitution of the Christian Medical College Ludhiana Society
(Regd.), the Christian Medical College Ludhiana is an educational
and research institution of an all India character established and
run by the minority Christian community. Its primary aim is to
educate and train Christian men and women as health professionals,
in the spirit of Jesus Christ for the healing ministry of the
Church in India. However, like man other Christian educational
institutions this college also offers educational facilities to
other young men and women irrespective of religion, caste and
community.
Through education in
this college the Christian Church seeks to make a significant
contribution to the health standards of all communities of our nation
with special emphasis on health care in the rural underserved and
unreached areas/communities in India.
The Medical Missionary work was started in Ludhiana in the year 1881 by
the Greenfield sisters, Miss Martha Rose and Miss Kay Greenfield. They
were Evangelists and Educationalists from Scotland. This pioneering
medical work of the Greenfield sisters was the precursor of the Medical
Training and Health Care Service Programe of the present Christian
Medical College, Ludhiana
The Greenfield sisters and their associates organized the Health Care
Educational Services in which endeavour Dr. Edith Mary Brown joined them
in 1893 and in 1894 the North Indian School of Medicine for Christian
Women was started by Dr. Edith Mary Brown and her colleagues with the
object of training Indian nationals particularly the women, to serve in
the field of Medical education and Health Care Services, emphasizing
integration of training and health care services.
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