CANNING TOWN MEDICAL MISSION HOSPITAL.

The Medical Mission Field

" In some rural districts of India," said a speaker at the annual meeting of the Medical Mission Department of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, " there is one public health office to 45,000 people." And India does not stand alone in the need of medical men and women. China, South and West Africa, Borneo, Mauritius?these are only some of the countries for which the Society is needi...

Medical inpatient mortality at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, 2002-2009.

BACKGROUND Despite the challenges facing healthcare in South Africa, empirical insights into the performance of healthcare services over time are scarce. METHODS We analysed first admissions of adult medical inpatients to Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, from January 2002 to July 2009. Data included age, sex, medical specialty, and date of admission and discharge. We used population group a...

A Miniature Town from Hospital Waste

the existence of the average child. Once these youngsters, with only the white walls of the wards about them, could think only of " playing hospital," but now they imitate home life and do everything done by the little folk of the outside world. The miracle of it all is that these miniature homes and shops that the tots are making for themselves are all evolved from nothing but ordinary hospita...

Indian Medical Mission at Hajj-2016: Mass-Gathering Medicine Perspectives, Challenges, and Opportunities in a Mission Posture

Introduction: Hajj is an annual mass gathering of over 3.5 million pilgrims congregating from 200 countries in the desert climate of Saudi Arabia. Mass gathering medicine at Hajj is challenged by issues of healthcare accessibility, infection control, on-site treatment, referral, evacuation, and response to disasters and public health emergencies. The Indian Medical Mission at H...

One small hospital one big mission.