For it is in giving that we receive
CMC’s Person to Person Programme (PTP) began in the 1970s. Everyone deserves good quality healthcare and PTP makes it affordable for economically disadvantaged patients. PTP links hundreds of people from all over the world. This joyful giving makes a difference in the lives of around 2000 patients each year! In the last 15 days, 80 […]
Person to Person – You Bridge the Gap
Kumar* lives in a village more than 60 kms from Vellore. He is a daily wage laborer, living with his wife and three children. In 2017 he developed fever with multiple painful swelling and patches on his hands. He came to CMC to see a doctor. He was shattered when the doctors diagnosed him with […]
Living with Nature
The rapidly spreading 3rd wave of COVID-19 has put a damper on the Pongal festivities in South India this weekend. Pongal, a harvest festival, celebrates the end of winter and the overflowing of nature’s gifts to us. Our Founder, Dr. Ida Scudder loved nature and planted many of the trees in CMC’s College Campus. The […]
Person to Person
The Person to Person Scheme (PTP) enables each one to help one. The PTP Fund gives grants of up to Rs.10,000 per patient. CMC then increases this five fold, so that the patient receives up to Rs.50,000 of free treatment.
The light of Christmas
2-year-old Jyothi* is the life and joy of her family. She was born seven years after her parents were married. They live in a small house near Vellore with Jyothi’s grandfather. Her father is a daily wage labourer and her mother is a tailor. In the beginning of November, Jyothi developed high-grade fever. Her parents […]
From Fragility to Freedom
“Will my daughter get through this and come home alive?” Only one thought was on Lakshmi’s mind as she took her frail daughter to CMC Vellore. Lakshmi is a daily wage worker. Her husband was a ‘tea master’ in a tea shop in rural Vellore. The shop closed down during the pandemic. He has not […]
New visions for life
The pandemic has forced many of us to work from home, attend online classes and have much more screen time than usual. Unfortunately, this increases the risk of shortsightedness. Today is World Sight Day reminding us to give our eyes the care they need. Just like Vignesh who can see clearly now. In 2009, Vignesh* […]
In a heartbeat…
Shyla was sick. Very sick. She was diagnosed to have a thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysm*, an autoimmune vasculitic condition in her case. She had learnt to live with the pain for more than 20 years. Given the complexity of the case, no doctor was keen to offer her any definitive treatment. Shyla was in her late […]
Survivor – Covid and Life
The Second Wave of the COVID pandemic wrecked families and homes. In CMC Vellore we saw many patients with severe illness, some of whom may have fared better if they presented earlier or were treated earlier. Kannan* and his family are one of them who went through a hard time. We met his son who […]
We saved my mother’s foot
Mukund* was brought up by his mother, Indira*, a strong and unusual woman. “My mother trained as a police officer, she is an excellent archer,” Mukund says proudly. Indira was diagnosed with diabetes. One day her anklet scratched her foot leaving a small wound. “The wound would not heal, it kept getting bigger,” recalls Mukund. “We did […]