CHAI celebrates 60 years of its service to the health of the people of India

The Catholic Health Association of India celebrates its diamond jubilee year of service in healthcare from 24 to 26 October 2003 at St. Francis College, Begumpet, Hyderabad . Archbishop Javier Lozano Barragan, the president of Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care, Vatican will inaugurate the celebrations .

The programme will include an international consultation on the theme “Universal access to health”, Initiating Health Insurance Scheme and adoption of 210 villages for improved sanitation, drinking water, housing and other basic determinants of health. CHAI, the largest national healthcare network with 3100 member institutions, was started in 1943 by a group of 16 religious sisters, under the leadership of Sr. Dr. Mary Glowry at St. Joseph's Hospital in Guntur in Andhra Pradesh.