The CBCI Commission has a unique role to play in actively networking among all the different Healthcare Organizations like, CHAI, CMAI, VHAI, Nurses’ Guild, Doctors’ Forum, etc. It has another important task of keeping a constant touch with Government Structures and to diffuse information on Government schemes and projects like RCH, Tuberculosis control, HIV/AIDS prevention, programme for old persons, disabled etc. so that through our institutions we could implement in the grass root level.

The Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI)

The Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI) remains the largest health care network in the country having 2906 member institutions under its umbrella, ranging from small health centers serving in the remotest villages to large city-hospitals.

The Association experienced a steady growth in its involvement, and vision. The Alma Ata Declaration of WHO in 1975 was "Health for All by 2000 AD". CHAI realized that this was an impossible task and adapted it into "Health for Many More by Many More". Since 1996, CHAI has three new strategies in realizing its objective in building up healthy communities, such as Decentralization, Bottom up approach and Networking with Government and like-minded voluntary organizations . Decentralization was aimed at enabling many more members to participate in the affairs of the organization and to address region-specific issues. Thus efforts were initiated to strengthen Regional Units, formation of Diocesan Units and building up of Regional Resource Teams. Now CHAI has 11 regional units.

Catholic Nurses’ Guild of India (CNGI)

The main objectives for the formation of CNGI in 1957 were "to improve and elevate the nursing profession in its religious, apostolic, ethical, social, cultural, economic and technical aspects; and to provide an agency through which catholic nurses will be able to speak and act corporately in matters of common interest to their profession" . Evaluating its presence in the health scenario of India, it is noted that, "for us, the CNGI, the past years have been years of growth and full of challenges. CNGI stood for the voiceless, specially in the pro-life activities of the country in schools, sex education and family life education and Natural Family Planning to hundreds of children and parents in the Catholic Schools and Colleges".

Association for Pastoral Animators and Chaplains in Healthcare Apostolate in India (APCHAI)

Considering the importance of holistic health care, especially due to the growing stress on the
spiritual care, counseling, pastoral animation and so on, an association, APACHAI was formed in the
national level. This has to be further strengthened and regional units have to be formed. Training
programmes for hospital chaplains and pastoral animators have to be arranged.

Indian Federation of Medical Guild (IFMG)