Chittor campus !

During a recent visit to the campus of the Christina Medical College, Vellore at Chittor, I had some nostalgic memories. 

The new 120 bed hospital and an out-patient service which can cater to about there hundred a day is now functional and the inpatient service is fully occupied. Although the full fledged facilities would commence only in a few months, the place symbolises the small beginning of CMC at Vellore 116 yards ago. It took CMC at Vellore about five years in the early nineteen hundred to grow to a 120 bed hospital; but this initiative starts with a plan to make it into a 300 hundred bed hospital shortly. It is a promising vision considering that a full complement of professionals is yet to be recruited for full time service in this place. Those seconded from Vellore or who go on part time basis constitute currently the majority of the staff. 

What is so special about it! In the recent ten years or so CMC Vellore is developing a new model of its presence. It is partnering hospitals in Dimapur, Erode, apart from continuing to support the earlier initiative at Bangalore!  Chittor has the potential to become the twin campus to Vellore in the coming decades all being well. 

I felt pleased to see the in-patient block built in single story simple structures to give it a modest appearance that makes it easy for patients from rural background to find it homely and hospital!

I felt at the end of the visit that another story of equal significance to Vellore is about to unfold! Its beginning closer to when CMC is preparing to celebrate its hundred years in health care education in 2018, is more than just coincidental- it carries a prophetic message!

M.C.Mathew(text and photo)