CMAI-CHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE NETWORK ACROSS THE COUNTRY

1. Christian Medical Association of
India (CMAI)

2. Christian Medical Association of India (CMAI)
 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. How do they do it?
 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.

6. How do they do it?
 DISASTER RELIEF: By rendering healthcare
during natural calamities and disasters

7. History
 Founded in 1905 as the Medical Missionary Association
(MMA), it supports 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.

8. History
 CMAI has done pioneering work in several areas,
including leprosy, tuberculosis, malaria and HIV and
AIDS.

9. CMAI PRESENT SCENARIO
 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.

10.  CMAI is a member of the International Christian
Medical and Dental Association (ICMDA).
 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

11. VISION AND MISSION
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.

12. 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.

13. OBJECTIVES
 Implementation of schemes for comprehensive
health care, family planning and community welfare.
 Rendering health in calamities and disasters of all
kinds.

14. Their Programs are
• Communicable Diseases
• Community Health
• Disaster & Humanitarian Assistance
• Relief & Rehabilitation of the Disabled
• Advocacy
• New Initiatives & Major Projects

15. THANK YOU