Christian Medical Centre

CBM Christian Medical Centre (founded in 1904[3]) is a participating hospital of Council of Christian Hospitals.[1] It is located in Pithapuram, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India.

CBM-Christian Medical Centre, Pithapuram
Council of Christian Hospitals[1]
With love serve one another
Geography
Location	Pithapuram 533 450, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India
Coordinates	17.1167°N 82.2667°E / 17.1167; 82.2667
Organisation
Care system	Medicare
Funding	Non-profit hospital
Type	Community
Religious affiliation	Christianity (Baptists)
Affiliated university	Christian Medical College, Vellore (Tamil Nadu)
Patron	Dr. G. Rajya Sree (Medical Director)[2]
Network	Christian Medical Association of India, New Delhi
History
Opened	1904[3]
Links
Lists	Hospitals in India

The Rev. Dr. William Gordon Carder who once taught Church history at Andhra Christian Theological College, Hyderabad wrote that it was Dr. E. G. Smith, first medical missionary of Canadian Baptist Mission to have arrived in India who could be attributed to founding of Hospital in Pithapuram. Gordon wrote,[3]

Dr. E. Smith of Yelamanchili made a tour in Pithapuram area in 1900. He came at invitation of Field Missionary. He found more people than usual requesting and in need of medical attention. Over next six years, he made many visits to this area. He began construction of a hospital in 1904 on northern edge of village of Pithapuram. Buildings began to be used in 1907[4] and were formally opened in February 1908. The hospital was given a Biblical name "Bethesda", a house of mercy.

Gordon further wrote that when Dr. Smith went on furlough in 1910, Dr. Jessie Allyn who came in his place once went to Palace of Raja of Pithapuram to attend to the Rani who delivered a child. In honour, Rani of Pithapuram bestowed grants to build an exclusive hospital for women and children in near vicinity of existing hospital.[3]

CBM Christian Medical Centre is a member of,

• Council of Christian Hospitals, Pithapuram[1]
• Christian Medical Association of India, New Delhi[5]

Hospital also networks with the Christian Medical College, Vellore[6]

References

1. ETASI, health.
2. European Baptist Ministries, können Sie das Gebetsposter 2015 herunterladen. Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
3. W. G. Carder, Hand to the Indian Plow: Volume One, Carder, Hyderabad, 1976, pp.143-147.
4. Sivasankaranarayana (Edited), Andhra Pradesh District Gazetteers, Volume 14, Printed by the Director of Print. and Stationery at the Government Secretariat Press, Hyderabad, 1979.
5. The Christian Medical Association of India, Member Institutes in Andhra Pradesh. Internet, accessed 5 October 2008. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 September 2008. Retrieved 5 October 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. Christian Medical College, Vellore, Networking. Internet, accessed 5 October 2008.

Further reading

• Prabhakara Rao, S., Rev. (March 1971). "The Medical Ministry of the Canadian Baptist Mission (Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars) 1890–1950. A thesis submitted to the History Department of the Ramapatnam Baptist Theological College in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Divinity of the Senate of Serampore College (University), Serampore". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• John Craig, J. R. Stillwell (Eds.). "Telugu Trophies: The Jubilee story cf some of the principal Telugu converts in the Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission in India from 1874 to 1924". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
• Martin Senftleben (1992). "Influences of Hinduism on Christianity in Andhra Pradesh. Unpublished PhD thesis, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati" (PDF). I & II. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 December 2008. Retrieved 12 November 2015. Cite journal requires |journal= (help) II
• G.Beaulah Pearl Sunanda (1990). "An Insight into the History of the Canadian Baptist Mission in Andhra Pradesh (1874–1924). Unpublished M.Phil. (History) Thesis, Madras Christian College, Madras". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• M. L. Orchard (2008). "Canadian Baptists at work in India". ISBN 978-1-4086-7832-9. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• John Craig (1908). "Forty years among the Telugus : a history of the mission of the Baptists of Ontario and Quebec, Canada, to the Telegus, South India 1867–1907". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)