Cmc vellore board of directors
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Christian Medical College Vellore
Medical institution in Tamil Nadu, India
"Christian Medical College" redirects here. For the college of same name in Ludhiana, India, see Christian Medical College, Ludhiana.
Christian Medical College, Vellore, widely known as CMC, Vellore,[6] is a private, Christian minority community-run medical college and hospital in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.[7][8] This institute includes a network of primary, secondary and tertiary care hospitals.[9]
The institute, constituent college is affiliated with the Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University.[10] Founded in 1900 by an American missionary, Dr Ida S. Scudder, CMC Vellore has brought many significant achievements to India, including starting the first College of Nursing in 1946, performing the first reconstructive surgery for leprosy in the world (1948), performing the first successful open heart surgery in India (1961), performing the first kidney transplant in India (1971), performing first bone marrow transplantation (1986) in India and perfo
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An Answer to the Three Knocks
In 1890, a twenty-year-old American named Ida Sophia Scudder traveled to India to be with her ailing mother. Three men, a Muslim and two Hindus, arrived at her family’s home seeking emergency help for their wives who were having labor complications.
The three young husbands refused the assistance of Ida’s father, a Christian missionary doctor, because of prevailing caste and gender customs. Without any medical training, Ida was powerless to help. The next day, she learned that all three women had died. After reflection and prayer, Ida felt that God was calling her to serve the women of India. She returned to the U.S. to become a doctor, graduating in the first class that accepted women at Cornell Medical College in 1899.
Ida returned to India in 1900 to begin her work as a doctor. With a small gift of $10,000 from a man who wanted to memorialize his deceased wife, she immediately opened a one-bed clinic giving medical assistance to local women who had no other place to go for health care.
By 1902, the 40-bed Mary Taber Schell Memorial Hospit
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How it all began
“This above all: to thine own self be true
And it must follow, as the night the day
Thou canst not then be false to any man…”
– William Shakespeare
Born in South India in 1870, Ida Scudder, the founder of CMC Vellore, spent most of her childhood in the US and was educated there.
Although her grandparents - Ida’s grandfather, Rev. John Scudder (left) and his wife, Harriet Waterbury Scudder were the first of the Scudders to arrive in India as medical missionaries – her parents and most other members of her extended family had served as missionaries in India - this was not the life that she wanted. 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 suggest
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