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Champa Christian Hospital
Established 100 years ago, Champa Christian Hospital serves the poor and marginalized communities of the Janjgir-Champa District. Due to the unavailability of medical professionals over the last three years, the hospital has seen a significant decline in patient healthcare services, and their subsequent financial struggles have nearly brought them to closure.
However, with the addition of an OB/GYN doctor, a radiologist, and a senior administrator at Champa, steps are being taken to gradually improve the situation and work toward rebuilding the broken bond between the hospital and the community. They are focused on restoring patient confidence through compassionate, affordable, and dependable care.
Over the next few years, the team at Champa aims to rebuild the hospital around core secondary-care services that address the greatest needs of their community. Particular emphasis will be placed on maternal and child health, emergency care, diagnostics, radiology, palliative care, and affordable access to advanced investigations. They also intend to strengthen community outreach programs so that healthcare reaches vulnerable populations before illness becomes advanced and costly.
Champa’s long-term vision is not simply to increase patient numbers, but to ensure that quality healthcare remains accessible regardless of a patient’s financial circumstances. They want to build a hospital where clinical excellence, financial stewardship, and compassionate service work together so that no person is denied timely diagnosis or treatment because of poverty.
Harriet Benson Memorial Hospital
The struggle has been real over the last several years for the staff at Harriet Benson Memorial Hospital (HBMH). Without a steady stream of patients and income since COVID-19, HBMH has had a hard time making ends meet. Currently they have one doctor, and they are working with a local OB/GYN who comes in to care for pregnant mothers and handle their deliveries.
Several EHA hospitals have loaned staff to HBMH off and on. They have also been holding eye camps with an eye surgeon from another facility. With a faithful staff of just 27 including nurses, technicians, and administrative staff, they care for the patients who come. They have just 7 nurses—5 work at the hospital and 2 are part of the palliative care team that goes out into the communities.
Their community health and development program has two areas of service—disability services and palliative care. The disability support program reaches many villages, starts disabled persons’ groups, and helps individuals. The HBMH staff help people fill out paperwork to obtain a disability certificate—which are notoriously difficult to get. They work with governmental and non-governmental organizations to distribute free assistive devices to those who need them. The staff also hold awareness campaigns to help break the social stigma of disabilities so that they are no longer seen as a curse.
HBMH’s palliative care (PC) program has been serving the needs of those with life-limiting illnesses since 2010, and is EHA’s oldest PC program. Each day, 2 nurses and other staff are driven out into the communities to visit the homes of the palliative care patients. They provide medical care, pain management, education for families in how to care for patients, and emotional support. Currently, they are caring for 170 patients in the villages surrounding Lalitpur.
Lakhnadon Christian Hospital
For more than a century, Lakhnadon Christian Hospital has stood as a place of healing, compassion, and hope for the people of rural Madhya Pradesh. Over the decades, the hospital became a trusted center for surgery, maternal and child health, emergency care, and general medicine for thousands of people from Seoni district and surrounding rural and tribal areas. For many families, this hospital has not simply been a healthcare institution. It has been part of their lives for generations.
However, the years surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic brought the hospital to one of the most difficult periods in its history.
Due to the unavailability of doctors and the challenges created during that period, Lakhnadon Christian Hospital had to shut down. Services slowly restarted in 2022, but the situation remained extremely fragile. There were very few patients. There was almost no income. Most heartbreaking of all, many staff members continued serving despite not receiving regular salaries for nearly three years. Yet they stayed because they believed the hospital still had a purpose in this community. Their faithfulness during the darkest period became the foundation on which revival could begin.
A major turning point came in 2025 with the joining of a general surgeon and a junior doctor. With renewed clinical leadership, surgical services slowly restarted. Emergency care became more active. Critically ill patients who would once have been referred immediately to distant centers began receiving treatment locally.
Around the same time, another major encouragement came through support from the Azim Premji Foundation, which funded a long-standing need: the repair and renovation of the inpatient wards. For years, the roofs of the wards leaked heavily during the rainy season, making patient care extremely difficult and discouraging admissions. The renovation work is currently in progress at Lakhnadon and has brought renewed confidence to both patients and staff. Today, the hospital is witnessing something we had almost lost hope of seeing again: the trust of the people returning. Patients are slowly coming back. Stories of lives saved through emergency surgery, diabetic ketoacidosis management, burn care, maternal care, and neonatal survival are spreading through surrounding villages.
The hospital leadership now sees a real opportunity to restore Lakhnadon Christian Hospital into a strong rural healthcare center once again. However, significant challenges remain, and this is where partnership and support become vital.
Their vision is to rebuild Lakhnadon Christian Hospital into a sustainable, compassionate, and accessible rural healthcare center that provides affordable quality care to underserved communities while upholding dignity, integrity, and Christian values. They aim to become a trusted referral center for surrounding rural populations by strengthening essential medical and surgical services that are currently lacking in the region.
Prem Jyoti Community Hospital
EHA’s Prem Jyoti Community Hospital (PJCH) was started as a community health program to care for the marginalized Malto tribal hill people of northeast Jharkhand.
This people group struggled with high infant and maternal mortality rates, low literacy, and severe poverty. Their population dropped from one million in 1947 to one hundred thousand by 1997. Witnessing this drop, EHA, along with the Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief (EFICOR) and the Friends Missionary Prayer Band (FMPB), opened a community health program with just two doctors, a lab tech, and two lay people. Twenty-nine years later, PJCH is a 30-bed hospital with 45 staff members.
From 1997 when the clinic opened to 2016, the infant mortality rate dropped from 250/1000 births to 100/1000. And the maternal mortality rate decreased from 46/1000 to 6/1000. The Malto villages now struggle less with diseases like malaria, diarrhea, TB, and a parasite disease called Kala-azar.
Since the villagers are spread out in the hills with few means of transportation, PJCH operates 72 mobile clinics each year covering 48 different villages. They have trained community health volunteers to give basic care and evaluate patients who need to be brought in for treatment at PJCH.
Since their forced closure during COVID-19, Prem Jyoti has struggled financially. It has been difficult for them to hire enough staff to draw in the patients who need medical care in the area.
Prem Sewa Hospital
EHA’s Prem Sewa Hospital was founded in 1966 by the Central India Christian Mission. They began as a small clinic with 12 beds, but today they have 35 beds and a staff of 80, including 7 doctors, 24 nurses, and 7 paramedical staff.
In the course of a year, their outpatient department serves 45,000 patients, and approximately 950 are admitted to the inpatient department. Their OB/GYN department is kept busy delivering 1,200 babies each year.
Many of the hospital buildings are quite old and in need of renovation or replacement. The roof of their outpatient department is falling in, so that needs to be fixed as soon as possible. Their equipment is also outdated, making diagnosis and medical care more difficult. They hope to add a new operating room, more staff housing, and solar-power panels to help with their intermittent electrical supply.
