Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: The Christian Medical College Hospital

  • The Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore

    Preeti ShanbagMumbai, India  The Christian Medical College Hospital was founded by Ida Sophia Scudder in 1900, in response to a calling. Daughter of a North American missionary couple working in India, she was born in Tindivanum in south India in 1870. Her earliest experiences of India were of the terrible famine of the 1880s and…