Emmanuel Hospital Association

India

The Emmanuel Hospital Association (EHA) is an Indian Medical Missionary Society. The control and management of its affairs are indigenous and not dependent on any foreign mission or board. It provides medical services to the impoverished people of rural and urban north and central India in the name and spirit of Jesus Christ. It follows the belief that health care is treating the whole person with an emphasis on prevention as well as a strong emphasis on the spiritual well being of the patient.

In the slum areas of Delhi, the Association helps the residents organize to achieve their rights as well as delivering health care and health education. They have helped residents form cooperatives and secure bank loans. Also they are part of a government plan for health, having accepted responsibility for one zone.

Throughout North India EHA helps the seventeen hospitals associated with it to strengthen their management with clear policies and procedures. New staff are carefully oriented each year. The Herbertpur Hospital will serve an example of the services provided by these hospitals:

Community health work serves 21 villages through 32 trained health workers who are assisted by various local welfare committees. A mobile health team from the hospital maintains regular visits to the villages. The hospital provides in-service training in surgery, anesthesia, nursing, hospital administration and finance. There is an on-going program to train surgical residents in rural medicine in collaboration with Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, Pubjab. PC(USA) funds have helped with equipment and buildings.

Dr. Vinod Shah became the head as well as Medical and Finance Secretary of the Emmanuel Hospital Association in July 1996.

PC(USA) Mission Co-Worker Dr. Beverley Booth serves as a consultant to EHA, assisting with medical research and continuing medical education. The Emmanuel Hospital Association is supported by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) by Extra Commitment Opportunity funds, account #862362. The Medical Benevolence Foundation also raises funds for the EHA.