This issue represents a wide range of history. Paul Broomhall, was a grandson of Hudson Taylor. The EHA Jubilee reminds us of past medical missionaries who pioneered hospitals that have become a Christian health service caring for many of the poor in India. District hospitals have become the centres from...
My physiotherapy elective was spent in Malawi, working with a local non-government organisation "Malawi Against Polio" (MAP). This charitable organisation relies on external and local aid. MAP has 4 separate mobile units, based in 4 of the larger towns, each comprising a team of 2 physiotherapists, 1 physiotherapy assistant (trained...
On the death of Paul Broomhall on 21 August 1995, MMA has lost a Vice-President and also a loyal friend of many years standing. Paul was the Hon. Treasurer of MMA for over 20 years and he and Harry Bennett and Edgar Stevens formed an effective triumvirate that ran MMA...
Joining in the Jubilee Celebrations in Delhi, November 1994, was to experience the unrolling of a multicoloured tapestry of varying weave, but with the same strong strands running throughout. Twenty-five years ago a variety of foreign missions met with Indian Christian leaders to form together a medical and health service to...
Opportunity knocks at the 576 bed Jubilee Community Hospital, Hammanskraal, South Africa, which was a Baptist Mission and is now a government hospital with opportunity for Christian service. We are short of doctors. We have a Baptist doctor from Zaire and a few doctors from South Africa. We have Muslims and...
Vocation Most doctors, when they start at Medical School, have a sense of vocation. I always felt it was a privilege to be a doctor, even as I approached retirement, but the increased pressure on General Practitioners, in recent years, made me feel like the red queen. However hard I...
What makes the difference between a Christian healthcare worker and one who is not a believer? How does our faith actually impact on our work? Here are some thoughts on what the Scriptures have to say about the matter: Our work is marked by Love. In the way we relate to...