Serango Christian Hospital

Serango Christian Hospital
Geography
Location	Serango 761 206, Gajapati District, Odisha, India
Coordinates	19°N84°E / 19°N 84°E / 19; 84
Organisation
Care system	Medicare
Funding	Non-profit hospital
Type	General
Religious affiliation	Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars
Patron	Dr. Helen Nirmala Rao (Medical Director)
Network	Council of Christian Hospitals
Services
Beds	65 [1]
History
Opened	March 14, [2] 1928 [3]

Serango Christian Hospital is a private Baptist hospital based in Serango, Gajapati District, Odisha, India. It is a member of Council of Christian Hospitals, a not-for-profit healthcare provider in India.

History

It was the outcome of missions of Canadian Baptist Mission who set foot in 1876 with arrival of The Reverend William F. Armstrong and subsequently established a mission station on the hills in Serango. ^[2] In 1928, it became a hospital. ^[3]

Memberships

CBM Serango Christian Hospital is a member of,

• Council of Christian Hospitals, ^[4] Pithapuram, Andhra Pradesh,
• Christian Medical Association of India, New Delhi ^[5] Hospital also networks with Christian Medical College, Vellore ^[6]

References

1. "EBM India, Serango Christian Hospital". Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
2. Kenneth Knight, Shirley Knight, The Seed Holds the Tree: A Story of India and the Kingdom of God, 2009.
3. 1 2 "EBM India". Archived from the original on 1 February 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
4. ETASI, health
5. The Christian Medical Association of India, Member Institutes in Andhra Pradesh. Internet, accessed 5 October 2008. "Christian Medical Association of India: Membership". Archived from the original on 26 September 2008. Retrieved 5 October 2008.
6. Christian Medical College, Vellore, Networking

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 (Bacchelor thesis). Ramapatnam Baptist Theological College.
• 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 Unpublished M.Phil.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.
• 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. Self-publishing.
• M. L. Orchard (2008). Canadian Baptists at work in India. Missionary Education Department of the Foreign Mission Board. ISBN   978-1-4086-7832-9.
• John Craig, J. R. Stillwell (Eds.) (1924). Telugu Trophies: The Jubilee story cf some of the principal Telugu converts in the Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission in India from 1874 to 1924. Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission Board.