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CBM Christian Medical Centre (founded in 1904[1]) is a participating hospital of Council of Christian Hospitals.[2] It is located in Pithapuram, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India.
The Rev. Dr. William Gordon Carder who once taught Church history at Andhra Christian Theological College, Hyderabad wrote that it was Dr. E. G. Smith, first medical missionary of Canadian Baptist Mission to have arrived in India who could be attributed to founding of Hospital in Pithapuram. Gordon wrote,[1] Template:Quote
Gordon further wrote that when Dr. Smith went on furlough in 1910, Dr. Jessie Allyn who came in his place once went to Palace of Raja of Pithapuram to attend to the Rani who delivered a child. In honour, Rani of Pithapuram bestowed grants to build an exclusive hospital for women and children in near vicinity of existing hospital.[1]
CBM Christian Medical Centre is a member of,
Hospital also networks with the Christian Medical College, Vellore[4]
References
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- ↑ Christian Medical College, Vellore, Networking. Internet, accessed 5 October 2008. [1]
Further reading
- 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({Template:Date).
- Telugu Trophies: The Jubilee story cf some of the principal Telugu converts in the Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission in India from 1874 to 1924.
- Influences of Hinduism on Christianity in Andhra Pradesh. Unpublished PhD thesis, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati({Template:Year). II
- An Insight into the History of the Canadian Baptist Mission in Andhra Pradesh (1874–1924). Unpublished M.Phil. (History) Thesis, Madras Christian College, Madras({Template:Year).
- Canadian Baptists at work in India({Template:Year).
- 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({Template:Year).