Care system Medicare Hospital type Community | Funding Non-profit hospital | |
Location Pithapuram 533 450, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India Affiliated university Christian Medical College, Vellore Patron Dr. Leela Serene (Director) | ||
CBM Christian Medical Centre (founded in 1904) is a participating hospital of the Council of Christian Hospitals, an autonomous body of the Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars.
The Christian Medical Centre is located in Pithapuram, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India.
The Rev. Dr. William Gordon Carder who once taught Church history at the Andhra Christian Theological College, Hyderabad wrote that it was Dr. E. G. Smith, the first medical missionary of the Canadian Baptist Mission to have arrived in India who could be attributed to the founding of the Hospital in Pithapuram. Gordon wrote,
Dr. E. Smith of Yelamanchili made a tour in Pithapuram area in 1900. He came at the invitation of the Field Missionary. He found more people than usual requesting and in need of medical attention. Over the next six years, he made many visits to the area. He began the construction of a hospital in 1904 on the northern edge of the village of Pithapuram. The buildings began to be used in 1907 and were formally opened in February 1908. The hospital was given the 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 the Palace of the Raja of Pithapuram to attend to the Rani who delivered a child. In honour, the Raja of Pithapuram gifted money to build an exclusive hospital for women and children in the near vicinity of the existing hospital.
The CBM Christian Medical Centre is a member of,
The Hospital also networks with the Christian Medical College, Vellore