CMC Vellore’s Missions Network comprises 168 hospitals serving communities across rural India.
CMC is committed to supporting these often lower-resourced hospitals. Its Missions Department builds relationships with hospitals that could benefit from a partnership with CMC, raises awareness of mission hospital work within CMC and encourages healthcare professionals to consider serving in these settings. The department also supports CMC students undertaking placements in mission hospitals.
Friends of Vellore UK play an important role in supporting CMC’s work with mission hospitals. We work closely with the Missions Department to support hospitals where our grants can make a real difference.
Our funding has helped hospitals purchase essential medical equipment, improve intensive care facilities and expand services for patients. We have also supported projects such as oxygen plants, an ambulance, a women’s hostel and accommodation for patients and their families who travel long distances for treatment.
In 2025, Friends of Vellore UK awarded grants totalling £107,992 to 12 mission hospitals working in partnership with CMC Vellore. The grants supported a wide range of projects, including essential medical equipment, improvements to critical care and surgical facilities, palliative care services and patient support.
Among the projects supported, Lady Willingdon Hospital in Manali received funding for a C-arm X-ray unit, which helps clinicians carry out imaging during surgical procedures. Christian Hospital Mungeli received support for diagnostic and therapy equipment, as well as resources for nursing education, helping to equip the next generation of healthcare professionals.
Other grants funded an ICU ventilator, operating theatre improvements, a wheelchair-adapted minibus, renal dialysis machines, rehabilitation equipment and patient care.
Through these grants, we continue to help mission hospitals strengthen their services and provide better healthcare for communities across India.
Mission Hospital Patient Support Fund
Many patients who come to mission hospitals can’t afford the treatment they need. In 2026 Friends of Vellore UK set up a Mission Hospital Patient Support Fund. It pays for direct patient care at mission hospitals linked with CMC Vellore.
Hospitals send us proposals that set out their need, how they’ll use the funds and how they’ll choose the patients who benefit. Our Trustees review each proposal and decide which hospitals to support, looking at the level of need, the likely impact and how well the hospital can manage and report on the funds. The hospitals we support send us a report every quarter on how the money has been used and the difference it has made.
The first grants from the fund went to Lakhnadon Christian Hospital in Madhya Pradesh and to Karigiri Hospital, with £15,000 each towards treatment for patients who can’t afford their care.
If you’d like to help patients at mission hospitals get the treatment they need, you can donate to the Mission Hospital Patient Support Fund here.
