The Catholic Health Association of India celebrates it 73 years of service. The organization has grown in terms of its membership, services and expanded the scope for encompassing and achieving the mission for which it was established in 1943. The organization has been shaped and nurtured by the visionaries who directed it and by the impact of national and international happenings. There have been paradigm shifts to meet the needs and to fulfill the vision and mission of reaching the poor and marginalized.

VISION 

The Catholic Health Association of India upholds its commitment to bring ‘health for all’.

It views health as a state of complete physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being, and not merely the absence of sickness. Accordingly, CHAI envisions an INDIA wherein people,

are assured of clean air, water and environment;
do not suffer from any preventable disease;
are able to manage their health needs;
are able to control the forces which cause ill health;
enjoy dignity and equality and are partners in decisions that affect them, irrespective of caste, creed, religion or economic status, and
respect human life and hold and nurture it to grow into its fullness.

MISSION

In order to realize the vision, CHAI endeavours to

Promote community health, understood as a process of enabling the people, especially the poor and the marginalized, to be collectively responsible to attain and maintain their health and demand health as a right, and ensure availability of quality health care at reasonable cost.
Prevent and control communicable and non-communicable diseases as they cause a huge public health burden as well as take a heavy toll of human life in the country.
Provide relief to disaster victims in the country and bring the affected to normal level of functioning.
Ensure relief and rehabilitation to persons with disabilities.
Sustain advocacy for the cause of poor and needy.