EHA

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Christian Institute of Health Sciences & Research (CIHSR) is an answer to prayers of the people of Nagaland. Nagaland became the 16th State of India in 1963. Nagaland is bounded on the West by Assam, on the East by Myanmar, on South by Manipur and on north by Arunachal and Assam. It has an area of 16,527 sqkm and a population of 20 lakh population. The state is divided into 11 administrative districts and 16 major and many sub-tribes.

The state had no tertiary level facility hence patients were referred outside. As a result the poor and marginalized suffered. Nagaland has an alarming incidence of HIV/AIDS, extensive substance abuse and insurgency. In the eighties the Government of Nagaland (GoN) decided on building a Referral Hospital. By Nineties the project stalled.

In January 2002, a team of experts from CMC Vellore and EHA was invited by the Government of Nagaland to consider running the Referral hospital facilities at Dimapur for which considerable investment was already made by the Central Government and the State Government but was still not functional.

On May 2005, EHA, CMC Vellore and GON signed an MOU. As the hospital was in a bad shape, major civil works was carried out over two years. A society was formed in Feb 2005, and the director appointed. In October 2007 CIHSR was inaugurated by the Governor, and the clinical services started from November 2007.

Major Services Offered by CIHSR include: Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Gastroenterology, Dermatology, Oncology, Haemodialysis, Emergency/Trauma, Pediatrics, Neonatology, General Surgery, Laparoscopic surgery, Obstetrics, Gynecology, ENT, Dentistry.

Vision of CIHSR:

• To develop Christ-centered leadership among the health professionals who have a sense of vocation, compassion, competence and are role models.
• To promote a healing community which is radical and innovative in its approach and has a focus on the poor
• To facilitate the building of God's kingdom in the north-east evidenced by the presence of transformed communities.

Objectives:

• Health Care: To establish a centre of excellence in tertiary level medical care.
• Education/Leadership Development: To develop under-graduate and postgraduate teaching programs with a view to train leaders among the doctors, nurses and paramedics from Nagaland and the rest of the north-east.
• Community: To establish innovative community health programs that will have considerable health impact in the region.
• Network: To provide a focal point for a network of hospitals in NE so as to make an impact on health in the whole of NE - providing such services as telemedicine.

Highlights 08-09:

• Current bed strength: 115 beds, 60 beds used
• Team of 100 + 70 outsourced staff
• Proposal for First Medical College of Nagaland submitted to GoN