Christian Medical College & Hospital

About Christian Medical College & Hospital

The Christian Medical College Vellore (CMC) is a large multi-speciality teaching hospital located in Tamil Nadu, India, about 140km to the west of Chennai. This is a brief overview of CMC. A great deal more information is available elsewhere and on the website. If you would like to know more or are interested in partnering with us in the work of healing, teaching and serving.

CMC Vellore was founded by an American missionary, Dr. Ida S. Scudder. Born in South India in 1870, she spent most of her childhood in the US and was educated there. Although her grandparents, parents and most other members of her extended family had served as missionaries in India, this was not the life that she wanted for herself. However one night, while visiting her parents at their home in India, her life was turned around. Three well-to-do men came to the house one after the other, with the same desperate story. Each of them had a young wife in the throes of childbirth, but unable to deliver. The traditional midwife had been unable to help. Would the young mistress come and help deliver the baby? Ida had no medical training at that point, and suggested that her doctor father should go.

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• English
• Hindi
• Tamil