மகளிருக்கான முதல் மருத்துவமனை!

மகளிருக்கான முதல் மருத்துவமனை!
(Christian Medical College & Hospital, Vellore, India.)
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• John Scudder, Ida's father, died just months after she returned to India. She undertook the work alone.
• In four generations, the Scudder family sent 42 missionaries to India and other nations.
• Ida took her services to the countryside villages, by ox cart and by car, operating on the roadsides. As she drove home exhausted at night, men and women flagged her down to tend desperate cases.
• First college of nursing in India in 1946
• First reconstructive surgery on leprosy patients in the world in 1948
• First neurological sciences department in South Asia also in 1948
• First successful open heart surgery in India in 1961
• First middle-ear microsurgery in India in 1961
• First rehabilitation institute in India in 1966
• First kidney transplant in India in 1971
• First bone marrow transplant in 1986
• First carotid bifurcation stenting procedure in India in 1996
• First trans-septal carotid stenting procedure in the world also in 1996
• First trans-jugular mitral valvuloplasty procedure in the world again in 1996
• First successful ABO incompatible renal transplant in India in 2009[1]
• Ranked the #1 private medical hospital in India in 2013 (India Today)
• Consistently ranked the #1 hospital in India by consumers