assam

Services offered

  • General Surgery
  • General Medicine
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Orthopedics
  • Urology
  • Community Health
  • Hospital Based Evangelism
  • Health Insurance Plan

    • Information

    Officers -
    SAO/Medical Superintendent:
    Dr J. Gnanaraj

    Principal, Nursing School:
    Mr. Vinay John

    Nursing Superintendent:
    Mrs. Rekha John

    Contact Address -
    P.O. Banskandi,
    Cachar District -788 101
    Assam
    Phone: 03843-287868, 287811
    Email: alipur@eha-health.org


    visitor information
    How to get there:
    Fly from Calcutta to Silchar then travel by road to Alipur

    Tourist spots:
    Guwahati, Shillong, Imphal.

    Guest rooms available
    BURROWS MEMORIAL CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL, ALIPUR

    Burrows Memorial Christian Hospital is a 70-bedded hospital serving the people of Assam since 1935. Dr. Crozier a world war veteran responded to God’s call and started medical work in Alipur. God blessed the work and many tuberculosis and leprosy patients stayed on the hospital premises. After Dr. Crozier returned to US, Dr. Kenoyer took over in 1948. The development of the hospital was during Dr. Kenoyer’s stay till 1977. It became a state of the art hospital drawing patients from all over Northeast India. All types of the latest surgical procedures then were carried out at BMCH. There was even a radiation therapy unit at Alipur (which was the first of its kind in Northeast India). After a short lull in its service, it was handed to EHA in year 2000, after which it has seen further growth.

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    Key Accomplishments

    • Services: The hospital established itself as an excellent centre for learning and research in minimally invasive surgeries. 3,000 surgical procedures were performed; 300 were laparoscopic and 900 were urologic endoscopic procedures. Seven articles were published; three in the Australia New Zealand Journal of Surgery and four in the Rural Surgery Journal.

    • Training: Nurses were empowered to carry out certain diagnostic procedures under supervision, and implemented a new need-based nursing care plan.

    Diagnostic camps were conducted in many new rural villages. A systematic analysis of the innovative diagnostic camps was carried out, and a revised health insurance plan was implemented.

    A new prepaid health plan was introduced for people residing outside Cachar District. The plan allows patients to pay a certain amount at the village, but receive twice the benefit at the hospital. The earmarked “pig for surgery programme” was implemented at many villages, where a Church buys a piglet, earmarked for elective surgery, and gives it to the patient to grow and sell, to help pay for the surgery