Introduction: Why mission hospitals are valuable. They provide a focus of expertise expertise from accumulated knowledge and experience expertise from international short- and long-term personnel expertise from mission IT and information access They provide a focus for training training in curative & preventative, public health & community training for doctors, paramedics and managers training in attitudes of compassion...
The village stretcher is slowly carried up the last steep rocky climb to the hospital. Why are hospitals built on the top of hills? Is it because Christians like to be nearer God? Far below, the river winds it’s way through the valley marking the border with the neighbouring country....
A major research project into the issues facing Christian hospitals in developing nations was published in 2000 by Christian Connections for International Health. This can be accessed at http://www.ccih.org/forum/0008-00.htm Emmanuel Hospital Association, who presented a radical model for the future direction of Christian hospitals at the forum, have details...
1. Key Issues Regarding the Future of Christian Hospitals Importance of context of the hospital for paradigm shifts in running Christian Hospitals (CHs) (e.g. size and attitude of Christian community, church involvement in social outreach, numbers of and support for national Christian health professionals, etc.) Self-sustaining hospitals realistic? (staff, funds, relevance...
India and Nepal are both predominantly Hindu countries in South Asia. In the two countries, the political history and environment, and the history of Christian mission and the development of the church have been very different. These factors already have, and are likely to continue to affect greatly the future...