Managing Director
Adventist Health India is an affiliate of the world wide Church Seventh Day Adventists. There are more than 175 healthcare institutions operated in various countries.
The Seventh Day Adventist church was organized formally in 1863. One of the leading founder of the church Mrs. Ellen G. White recognized the close relationship of physical wellbeing with emotional and spiritual wellbeing. In 1866, under the direction of James and Ellen White they opened a new kind of healthcare center in Battle Creek, USA. It was one institution that not only treated disease but also taught people how to prevent disease through good nutrition, exercise and sanitation. It was a place where each person was valued as a creation of God. Within years under the leadership of Dr. John Harvey Kellog the institution gained international recognition. Soon the work spread around the world including India.
In the early part of 1900’s missionary doctors established health centres throughout India. Over the years some have stood and they have provided the much needed healthcare in remote locations by overcoming financial constraints. Today the Southern Asia Division of SDA operates 12 hospitals. Eleven hospitals are operated across the country and there is one hospital in Nepal.
The Adventist Church has formed the trust Council of Seventh-day Adventist Hospitals (COSDAH) and later Medical Trust of Seventh-day Adventists, which is a registered body under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860, Reg. No.516 of 1999, under which the hospitals are embedded. The trust operates on a no-loss no-profit basis.
The medical trust operates 11 hospitals across the country, under the umbrella of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination; these hospitals are affiliated to institutions like Loma Linda Medical Center. Four of the hospitals have nursing schools attached. The schools are being upgraded to the collegiate level.
The hospital role in serving the local community covers part of the district of Salem. The hospital serves a population of about 3,000,000. There are 210 beds. The hospital owns 33 acres of land.
