Christian Medical Centre

CBM Christian Medical Centre is a participating hospital of the Council of Christian Hospitals, an autonomous body of the Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars.The Christian Medical Centre is located in Pithapuram, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India.The Rev. Dr. William Gordon Carder who once taught Church history at the Andhra Christian Theological College, Hyderabad wrote that it was Dr. E. G. Smith, the first medical missionary of the Canadian Baptist Mission to have arrived in India who could be attributed to the founding of the Hospital in Pithapuram. Gordon wrote,Gordon further wrote that when Dr. Smith went on furlough in 1910, Dr. Jessie Allyn who came in his place once went to the Palace of the Raja of Pithapuram to attend to the Rani who delivered a child. In honour, the Raja of Pithapuram gifted money to build an exclusive hospital for women and children in the near vicinity of the existing hospital.

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