The Christian Medical College and Hospital was established in 1894 by a British Baptist missionary, Dr. Edith Brown, who saw the desperate need of medical and nursing care for, and by, women at a time when many of the women were in purdah in North India.

The Institution continued to be run by women, for women and children, until 1947, when the geographic situation of Ludhiana, close to the border created between India and Pakistan, turned the hospital into an accident and emergency centre coping with the desperate stream of seriously injured refugees fleeing from Muslim Pakistan to India. Since then men have been patients, students and staff.
 Dr Edith Brown - the founder of CMC

From the outset there has been support given from the U.K. by various missionary societies which supported members of staff and in particular by the London Auxiliary Committee which later became the Ludhiana British Fellowship and is now known as the Friends of Ludhiana.
There are similar support groups in U.S.A, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

 

The College education has developed

1894 North India School of Medicine for Christian Women was opened with four girls enrolled.
1895 First Hospital Assistants' Course started. Academic affiliation with the University of Lahore. Dr. Edith Brown was Principal.
1909 Admission of non-Christian students at the request of Government.
1953 College became co-educational and is upgraded to M.B.B.S. standard of Punjab University.
1961 Radiography and radiotherapy training commenced.
1973 Upgrading of School of Nursing to College status accredited by the Punjab University for B.Sc. in Nursing.
1992 Dental College opened.
1999 All Colleges now affiliated to the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences at Faridkot.

Over the years there has been a shift away from missionary personnel holding key and senior positions within the institution so that now the hospital and colleges are staffed almost exclusively by Indian nationals.

 

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