Central Chinmaya Mission Hospital

History

In 1960 a small but an ardent group of Mission devotees hired a room in a slum area in Murphy Town Bangalore Therein they began conducting a biweekly medical clinic for the poor and needy This was the humble beginning of todays 200bed capacity of Chinmaya Mission Hospital CMH

When Swami Chinmayananda heard about the Murphy Town project and its volunteers who included Sushila Purushottam Kamala Reddy Prafulla Iyengar Mrs Dassanachar and Mrs Yogam he was pleasantly surprised Pleased with their service he gave them a cheque for Rs500 He said quotWhy not This gives me an idea of starting a hospitalquot and this is how the seed for CMH was sown Funds were collected land was purchased construction was planned executed and in 1970 Swami Chinmayananda officially inaugurated CMH

The number of beds increased to 50 in 1979 and the paediatric ward commissioned an additional 13 beds in 1981 As the years passed there was a growing need to expand the facilities to serve more patients In 1993 CMH became a 100bed hospital serving all who walked through its doors

Once when discussing expansion and funding Swami Chinmayananda said quotAn organization needs funds and workers Our Mission has workers but we are always in need of funds However our faith in the goodness of our programmes is so powerful that we have never hesitated in launching programmes The Lord always drives His messengers to reach us with the required funds at the most appropriate time This has been our experience over the last 40 yearsquot

On November 6 1999 CMH extended its ceilings floors walls staff and heart to become a 200bed hospital with the most modern equipment and facilities