Health
care is provided to the people of Ludhiana
city and the surrounding area by some 2,000 staff at the Christian Medical College
Hospital.
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The 740 bed hospital admits around 15,000 patients
each year and treats another 250,000 through its outpatient department clinics, now housed
in a new, spacious and functional building near the hospital's entrance.
The medical need in the city of Ludhiana has changed since Dame Edith Brown began the work
over a century ago. Ludhiana is a city of contrasts - many wealthy industrialists living
alongside a large number of poor immigrant labourers seeking work in an area of 100%
employment, and a high cost of living that only the wealthy can afford. There is now a
plethora of hospitals and private clinics in Ludhiana offering general medical and
surgical facilities. In this context C.M.C. Ludhiana has
identified a number of needs which it seeks to meet through it's various departments.
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SPECIALIST
CARE FOR THOSE WHO NEED MORE THAN THE PRIVATE CLINICS CAN OFFER
- upgraded specialist and diagnostic departments - such as microsurgery, burns treatment,
nephrology, urology, neurosurgery, cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, paediatrics,
radiotherapy, radiology, biochemistry, pathology, haematology, blood bank;
- trauma care for those involved in agricultural, industrial and road traffic accidents;
- pioneering treatments such as the reimplantation of severed limbs;
- providing a 'state-of-the-art' tertiary referral centre;
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CONTINUED CARE FOR THE POOR AND UNDERPRIVILEGED
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- granting concessions to those unable to afford the cost of treatment in the hospital;
- the Free Care and Low Cost
Treatment Ward (established 1995), a ward dedicated to providing hospital treatment in
a range of disciplines to those least able to afford it -
what do you do if your only source of income is what can be
scrounged on the rubbish tips of the city and your only child is very sick with TB and in
need of long term medication and hospital care?
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COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN RURAL AREAS
AND THE URBAN COMMUNITY (INCLUDING THE CITY'S SLUMS)
- clinics and home visits organised by the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine;
- health education, nutritional advice, ante-natal services and immunisation programmes;
- assisting in home deliveries and caring for mothers and new-born babies by the
domiciliary midwifery team;
- conducting medical, dental and eye camps in rural areas where there is limited or no
access to health care;
- preventive work including the screening and treatment of school children.
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C.M.C.
Ludhiana has identified the current need and is now seeking ways to meet it. The process
has begun, but the Director is relying on support from around the world to help him and
his team to equip C.M.C. to continue in the service of the people of India in the third
millennium.
We are currently involved in supporting the work by -
- assisting in staff development through seeking and/or financing training opportunities
for C.M.C. staff both in India and overseas;
- recruiting suitably qualified and experienced health and other professionals for
short consultancy visits or voluntary service
to share their knowledge, skills and expertise with C.M.C. staff;
- raising funds for projects identified by the Director of C.M.C., including the
Free Care and Low Cost Treatment Ward;
- channelling grants from other bodies in U.K., including those used for the purchase of
equipment locally within India.
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