Serango Christian Hospital Explained

Serango Christian Hospital
Location:	Serango 761 206
Region:	Gajapati District
State:	Odisha
Country:	India
Coordinates:	19°N 84°W
Healthcare:	Medicare
Funding:	Non-profit
Type:	General
Religious Affiliation:	Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars
Network:	Council of Christian Hospitals
Patron:	Dr. Helen Nirmala Rao (Medical Director)
Beds:	65^[1]
Founded:	March 14, 1928^[2]

Serango Christian Hospital is a private Baptist hospital based in Serango, Gajapati District, Odisha, India. It is a member of Council of Christian Hospitals.

History

It was the outcome of missions of Canadian Baptist Mission who set foot in 1876 with arrival of The Reverend William F. Armstrong and subsequently established a mission station on the hills in Serango.^[3] In 1928, it became a hospital. ^[4]

Memberships

CBM Serango Christian Hospital is a member of,

• Council of Christian Hospitals,^[5] Pithapuram, Andhra Pradesh,
• Christian Medical Association of India, New Delhi^[6] Hospital also networks with Christian Medical College, Vellore^[7]

Further reading

• Prabhakara Rao, S., Rev. . The Medical Ministry of the Canadian Baptist Mission (Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars) 1890–1950. . March 1971 . 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 .
• G.Beaulah Pearl Sunanda . An Insight into the History of the Canadian Baptist Mission in Andhra Pradesh (1874–1924). . 1990 . Unpublished M.Phil. (History) Thesis, Madras Christian College, Madras .
• Book: John Craig . 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 . 1908 . Self-publishing .
• Book: M. L. Orchard . Canadian Baptists at work in India . 2008 . Missionary Education Department of the Foreign Mission Board . 978-1-4086-7832-9.
• Book: John Craig, J. R. Stillwell (Eds.) . Telugu Trophies: The Jubilee story cf some of the principal Telugu converts in the Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission in India from 1874 to 1924 . 1924 . Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission Board .

Notes and References

1. Web site: EBM India, Serango Christian Hospital . 24 January 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160131131440/http://ebm-masa.org/serango-christian-hospital-india.0.html?&L=1. dead . 31 January 2016 .
2. Web site: EBM India . 24 January 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160201030920/http://solidaris.es/ebm-india-se-presentan-serango-christian-hospital/. dead . 1 February 2016 .
3. Kenneth Knight, Shirley Knight, The Seed Holds the Tree: A Story of India and the Kingdom of God, 2009. https://books.google.com/books?id=W5MtAgAAQBAJ&dq=serango%20christian%20hospital&pg=PP1
4. Web site: EBM India . 24 January 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160201030920/http://solidaris.es/ebm-india-se-presentan-serango-christian-hospital/. dead . 1 February 2016 .
5. http://www.etasi.org.in/health.html ETASI, health
6. The Christian Medical Association of India, Member Institutes in Andhra Pradesh. Internet, accessed 5 October 2008. Web site: Christian Medical Association of India: Membership . 2008-10-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080926170413/http://ccih.org/grham/country/india/memb-andhra.htm . 26 September 2008 . dmy-all .
7. http://clin.cmcvellore.ac.in/otherwebsite/mission_support/networking.asp Christian Medical College, Vellore, Networking