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{{Infobox hospital
| name = CBM Bethel Hospital, Vuyyuru
| org/group =[[Council of Christian Hospitals]]<ref name="ETASI">[http://www.etasi.org.in/health.html ETASI, ''health'']</ref>
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| location =[[Vuyyuru]] 521 165
| region =[[Krishna District]]
| state =[[Andhra Pradesh]]
| country =[[India]]
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| healthcare =Medicare
| funding = Non-profit
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| affiliation =[[Christian Medical College]], [[Vellore]]
| patron =Dr. I. Esther Anandakshi (Medical Director)
| network =[[Christian Medical Association of India]], [[New Delhi]]
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'''CBM Bethel Hospital''' was founded by [[Canadian Baptist Ministries]]. It is a participating hospital of [[Council of Christian Hospitals]].<ref name="ETASI"/> CBM Star of Hope Hospital is located in [[Vuyyuru]], [[Krishna District]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], India and was founded in 1906<ref>T. Theophilus, ''The History of the Bethel Hospital, Vuyyuru'', Platinum Jubilee Souvenir, Vuyyuru, ''pp. 36–38''.</ref> by missionaries of [[Canadian Baptist Mission]]. It is perhaps the oldest in the region.<ref>Sivasankaranarayana, M. V. Rajagopal (Eds.), ''Andhra Pradesh District Gazetteers'', Directorate of Printing and Stationery, Secretariat Press, Hyderabad, 1977. Page 205. Internet, accessed 5 October 2008. [https://books.google.com/books?id=z7lhAAAAIAAJ&q=bethel+hospital+vuyyuru&dq=bethel+hospital+vuyyuru&pgis=1]</ref>

==History==
[[Canadian Baptist Mission]] was initiated on request of [[Thomas Gabriel (missionary)]] based on which Rev. A. V. Timpany and Rev. John McLaurin who arrived in [[Ramayapatnam]] in 1868<ref name="Theophilusopcit">T. Theophilus, ''op.cit.''</ref> moved to [[Kakinada]] in 1874 after which Mission got initiated.

In 1904, Dr. Gertrude Hulet<ref name="Biography">George W. Brown, Ramsay Cook (Eds.), Dictionary of Canadian Biography: 1901–1910, [[University of Toronto]] Press, 1994, {{ISBN|0-8020-3998-7}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8020-3998-9}}, p. 122. Internet, accessed 5 October 2008. [https://books.google.com/books?id=cxK0A0FUvZgC&pg=PA122&dq=gertrude+hulet&sig=ACfU3U2zc9r6qKs2HbrevcUQeIUFu6hSqw#PPP1,M1]</ref> arrived in [[Vuyyuru]] and opened a dispensary<ref>
Carlotta Hacker, The Indomitable Lady Doctors, Formac Publishing Company, 2001, {{ISBN|0-88780-543-4}}, {{ISBN|978-0-88780-543-1}}, p. 121. Internet, accessed 5 October 2008. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ect9febDdsMC&pg=PA121&dq=gertrude+hulet&sig=ACfU3U1kg6CREEyanWLrw_F4Ubncimq80w]
</ref> in 1906.<ref name="Theophilusopcit" /> Foundation of present hospital structure was laid by Krishna [[district collector]] in 1923.<ref name="Ibid">''Ibid.''</ref>

What started as a clinic in 1904<ref name="Biography"/> soon developed into a large hospital, taking care of ailing in coastal parts of Krishna district. A number of wards, case rooms and operating rooms were built.<ref>Manorama Fritschi ''(Ed.)'', Council of Christian Hospitals, Pithapuram, 1977. Manorama Fritschi was wife of Dr. Ernest Paul Fritschi who was earlier Director of Schieffelin Institute of Health, Research and Leprosy Centre, Karigiri, India. Internet, accessed 26 October 2008. [http://www.karigiri.org/Event1.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822105745/http://www.karigiri.org/Event1.htm# |date=22 August 2007 }}</ref> By 1955, hospital became a general hospital.<ref name="Ibid" />

Evelyn Eaton started a [[midwifery]] training course in 1941 and, by 1956, it became an [[Auxiliary nurse midwife|Auxiliary Nurse Midwives]] (ANMs) course.<ref name="Ibid" /> More than 500 nurses have graduated from this school.<ref name="Biography"/> The Chapel was built in memory of Dr. Hulet in 1957.

==Membership==
CBM Bethel Hospital is a member of,
* [[Council of Christian Hospitals]], [[Pithapuram]]
* [[Christian Medical Association of India]], New Delhi<ref>The Christian Medical Association of India, Member Institutes in Andhra Pradesh. Internet, accessed 5 October 2008. {{cite web |url=http://www.ccih.org/grham/country/india/memb-andhra.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-10-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080926170413/http://ccih.org/grham/country/india/memb-andhra.htm |archivedate=26 September 2008 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Hospital also networks with [[Christian Medical College]], [[Vellore]]<ref>Christian Medical College, Vellore, Networking. Internet, accessed 5 October 2008. [http://clin.cmcvellore.ac.in/otherwebsite/mission_support/networking.asp?start=41]</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite journal
| author=Prabhakara Rao, S., Rev.
| title=''The Medical Ministry of the Canadian Baptist Mission ([[Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars]]) 1890–1950''. A thesis submitted to the History Department of the Ramapatnam Baptist Theological College in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of [[Bachelor of Divinity]] of the [[Senate of Serampore College (University)]], [[Serampore]]
|date=March 1971
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}}
* {{cite journal
| author=John Craig, J. R. Stillwell (Eds.)
| title=Telugu Trophies: The Jubilee story cf some of the principal Telugu converts in the Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission in India from 1874 to 1924
| year=
| volume=
| issue=
| url =https://archive.org/stream/MN41713ucmf_9/MN41713ucmf_9_djvu.txt
}}
* {{cite journal
|author = Martin Senftleben
|title = ''Influences of Hinduism on Christianity in Andhra Pradesh.'' Unpublished PhD thesis, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati
|year = 1992
|volume = I & II
|url = http://www.drmartinus.de/bio/de/thesis1.pdf
|access-date = 5 October 2008
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081209131403/http://www.drmartinus.de/bio/de/thesis1.pdf#
|archive-date = 9 December 2008
|url-status = dead
|df = dmy-all
}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20081209131418/http://www.drmartinus.de/bio/de/thesis2.pdf II]
* {{cite journal
| author=G.Beaulah Pearl Sunanda
| title=''An Insight into the History of the Canadian Baptist Mission in Andhra Pradesh (1874–1924)''. Unpublished [[M.Phil.]] (History) Thesis, [[Madras Christian College]], Madras
| year=1990
| volume=
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| url =
}}
* {{cite journal
| author=M. L. Orchard
| title=''Canadian Baptists at work in India''
| year=2008
| volume=
| issue=

| isbn=978-1-4086-7832-9| url =https://books.google.com/?id=Ucw8fdwZg3wC&pg=PA200&dq=gertrude+hulet
}}
* {{cite journal
| author=John Craig
| title=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
| year=1908
| volume=
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| url =http://www.porthopehistory.com/johncraigsbook/johncraigbk_index.htm
}}

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