The Christian Medical Association of India (CMAI) is a forum, a gathering place, an association and an instrument for social reform. It is a fellowship of doctors, nurses, administrators, chaplains and allied health professionals who assist India’s poorest and most deprived sections of society.
Who they are
CMAI serves as a Christian network of hospitals and healthcare professionals promoting medical care in hard-to-reach communities through its member institutions or by direct technical inputs.
How do they do it?
DIRECT HEALTHCARE: By providing relief to human suffering irrespective of caste, creed, community, religion and economic status.
CAPACITY BUILDING: By promoting and sharing knowledge of factors governing health.
MANAGEMENT: By coordinating training doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and others involved in the ministry of healing.
PARTNER ENGAGEMENT: By implementing government schemes for comprehensive health care, family planning and community welfare.
DISASTER RELIEF: By rendering healthcare during natural calamities and disasters.
History
Founded in 1905 as the Medical Missionary Association (MMA), we are a fraternity to support professionals engaged in holistic healing. In 1926, MMA was rechristened as the Christian Medical Association of India (CMAI) and has grown in strength by keeping pace with the changing healthcare needs in this country.
CMAI has done pioneering work in several areas, including leprosy, tuberculosis, malaria and HIV and AIDS.
Today CMAI is a charitable, Christian healthcare network, non-governmental organization, an educational society and the official health agency of the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI). The member institutions are related to various churches: Assemblies of God, Baptists, Church of North India, Church of South India, Lutheran, Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Mennonite, Methodist, Nazarene, Presbyterian, Salvation Army, Seventh Day Adventists, The Malankara Jacobite Syrian Church, etc.
CMAI is a member of the International Christian Medical and Dental Association (ICMDA) and will be hosting the international convention of ICMDA in 2018.
CMAI now has over 330 institutions (hospital, health care centres and community programmes etc.) and over 10,000 individuals as members. Regional and local activities are organised by CMAI regional representatives across the country
Their Vision
That they may have life…and life in its fullness.
Their Mission
In response to the love and command of Christ, CMAI’s mission is to serve the churches in India in its ministry of healing and to build a just and healthy society.
Objectives
• Prevention and relief of human suffering irrespective of caste, creed, community, religion and economic status.
• Promotion of knowledge of the factors governing health.
• Coordination of activities for training doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and others involved in the ministry of healing.
• Implementation of schemes for comprehensive health care, family planning and community welfare.
• Rendering health in calamities and disasters of all kinds.
Their Programs are
• Communicable Diseases
• Community Health
• Disaster & Humanitarian Assistance
• Relief & Rehabilitation of the Disabled
• Advocacy
• New Initiatives & Major Projects