CBM Bethel Hospital

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name =CBM Bethel Hospital
native_name =Bethel Hospital


motto =With love serve one another.
established =1906
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president =Dr. Sukant Singh
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director =Dr. I. Esther Anandakshi
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city =Vuyyuru 521 165, Krishna District
state =Andhra Pradesh
country =India
campus =Rural
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affiliations = * Council of Christian Hospitals, Pithapuram
* Christian Medical Association of India, New Delhi
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CBM Bethel Hospital was founded in the year 1906 [T. Theophilus, "The History of the Bethel Hospital, Vuyyuru", Platinum Jubilee Souvenir, Vuyyuru, "pp. 36-38".] by missionaries of the Canadian Baptist Mission. It is perhaps the oldest in the region [Sivasankaranarayana, M. V. Rajagopal (Eds.), "Andhra Pradesh District Gazetteers", Directotorate of Printing and Stationery, Secretariat Press, Hyderabad, 1977. Page 205. Internet, accessed 5 October 2008. [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=z7lhAAAAIAAJ&q=bethel+hospital+vuyyuru&dq=bethel+hospital+vuyyuru&pgis=1] ] . The Hospital is a participating member of the Council of Christian Hospitals, a regulatory body in India for the medical mission of the Canadian Baptist Mission.

The CBM Bethel Hospital is located in Vuyyuru, a town between Vijayawada and Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh.

Beginnings

Missionaries of the Canadian Baptist Mission led by Rev. A. V. Timpany and Rev. John McLaurin began arriving in India as early as 1868 [T. Theophilus, "op.cit."] .

In 1904, Dr. Gertrude Hulet [George W. Brown, Ramsay Cook (Eds.), Dictionary of Canadian Biography: 1901-1910, University of Toronto Press, 1994, ISBN 0802039987, 9780802039989, p. 122. Internet, accessed 5 October 2008. [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=cxK0A0FUvZgC&pg=PA122&dq=gertrude+hulet&sig=ACfU3U2zc9r6qKs2HbrevcUQeIUFu6hSqw#PPP1,M1] ] arrived in Vuyyuru and began a dispensary [Carlotta Hacker, The Indomitable Lady Doctors, Formac Publishing Company, 2001, ISBN 0887805434, 9780887805431, p. 121. Internet, accessed 5 October 2008. [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ect9febDdsMC&pg=PA121&dq=gertrude+hulet&sig=ACfU3U1kg6CREEyanWLrw_F4Ubncimq80w] ] in 1906 [T. Theophilus, "op.cit."] . The foundation of the present hospital structure was laid by the Collector-in-Krishna in 1923 ["Ibid."] .

Membership

* Council of Christian Hospitals, Pithapuram
* Christian Medical Association of India, New Delhi [The Christian Medical Association of India, Member Institutes in Andhra Pradesh. Internet, accessed 5 October 2008. [http://www.ccih.org/grham/country/india/memb-andhra.htm] ]

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

Notable Personnel

Doctors

* Dr. Gertrude Hulet "(21 April 1871 - 22 May 1933)"
* Dr. Lucy Subrahmanyam
* Dr. Clara Pushpanadam
* Dr. Sarah Cook
* Dr. Dorothy E. Timpany
* Dr. C. L. Timpany
* Dr. Ilo Bennett
* Dr. K. K. Suseela "(June 1924 - April 1979)"

Nurses

* Miss Lockhart
* Smt. Mantada Mariamma
* Miss Eaton
* Miss Zina Kidd
* Miss Joan Rutherford
* Miss Mary Cowan
* Miss Florence Pletsch [Canadian Baptist Ministries, News Archive, September 12, 2008. Internet, accessed 5 October 2008. [http://www.cbmin.org/cbm/news-archive?news_id=62] ] "(June 30, 1922 - September 9, 2008)"

Chaplains

* Rev. T. Theophilus

Bible Women

* Smt. Santoshamma
* Smt. Katakshamma
* Smt. Venkayamma
* Kum. Uma Maheshwari

ee also

* Canadian Baptist Mission / Canadian Baptist Ministries, Canada

External links

* Official site of Canadian Baptist Ministries [http://www.cbmin.org]

References

;Notes

;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 fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Divinity of the Senate of Serampore College (University), Serampore.
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* cite journal
author=John Craig, J. R. Stillwell (Eds.)
title="Telugu Tropies: The Jubilee story cf some of the principal Telugu converts in the Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission in India from 1874 to 1924"
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url =http://www.archive.org/stream/MN41713ucmf_9/MN41713ucmf_9_djvu.txt
* cite journal
author=Martin Senftleben
title="Influences of Hinduism on Christianity in Andhra Pradesh." Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati
year=1992
volume=I & II
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url =http://www.drmartinus.de/bio/de/thesis1.pdf [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
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* cite journal
author=M. L. Orchard
title="Canadian Baptists at work in India".
year=2008
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url =http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Ucw8fdwZg3wC&pg=PA200&dq=gertrude+hulet&lr=&sig=ACfU3U0NgiSF9cloumWfvXV5nFNEMi0ihw