Saving lives of Accident Victims
One person dies every four minutes in a road accident in India. Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5-29 years. The United Nations aims to halve the global number of deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes by 2030. Unfortunately, the most badly affected are vulnerable […]
World’s best specialised hospitals 2023
Newsweek and Statista have developed a list of hospitals from around the world that use the most advanced technologies. The World’s Best Smart Hospitals 2023 ranks 300 facilities in 28 countries that lead in their use of AI, digital imaging, telemedicine, robotics and electronic functionalities. Five Departments from Christian Medical College made it in this list among […]
Departments that have shifted to Ranipet Campus
Departments that have shifted to CMC Velllore Ranipet Campus: Medical Oncology Pulmonary Medicine Gastroenterology Hepatology The above departments have moved and have started OP (A Block) and IP services at our new campus. Haematology, Nephrology and Urology to move in the coming weeks. Radiation Oncology and Palliative Medicine will function from both Town and Ranipet […]
Healing Hearts and Communities
Kala* lives in Vellore District with her three energetic boys. Last year, her 29-year old husband, a daily wage labourer, was diagnosed with terminal cancer. CMC’s Department of Palliative Medicine looked after him, subsidising his care and medications. Kala was inconsolable when he passed away. She herself suffers from a seizure disorder. How would she […]
Healing, One stitch at a time
It was October 2020. Time was ticking fast for Suji*. Her husband was diagnosed with cancer in his mouth. For almost a year he was taken care by the Palliative Care Team at CMC Vellore. She knew by now her husband’s days were numbered. Suji was only 37 years old. All her married life she […]
Today’s Youth Tomorrow’s Leaders
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world – Nelson Mandela Arthi * is a young and confident final-year student at CMC Vellore. She is studying to become an Occupational Therapist. Arthi and her two sisters were brought up by their mother, a single parent, who worked doubly hard […]
Day of Charity – Your gift can save a life
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples – St. Mother Teresa Today, 05 September 2022 is International Day of Charity, celebrated around the world in memory of St. Mother Teresa. CMC Vellore is committed to serving our socio-economically disadvantaged patients, like 23-year-old Selvi […]
CMC Vellore, Ranipet Campus
Patient care services have commenced from 17th August 2022. Transport is available for commuting between CMC campuses.
CMC Vellore has been ranked third in the National Institutional Ranking Framework
(NIRF)-2022.
For the fourth consecutive time CMC Vellore has bagged this prestigious position. The award was conferred by the Union Minister of Education Shri Dharmendra Pradhan at Delhi on July 15 th 2022, Dr. Solomon Sathishkumar, Principal, CMC Vellore, was invited to “The Conclave of Excellence in Higher Education in Tamil Nadu”, at the Raj Bhavan, Chennai, […]
11th Annual Dr. Ida S. Scudder Humanitarian Oration
Dr. Ida Scudder started her work in Vellore with a focus on serving women and children. She soon recognised that the poor couldn’t afford to come to the hospital, and the only way she could help them was by going to their doorstep to deliver the care that they so desperately needed. She drove to […]