Achievements
- One of the largest not-for-profit association in health sector in the world
- Key member, Indian chapter of International People’s Health Movement
- 71 years of service in the health sector
- An expansive base of 3481 Member Institutions (MIs) with over 1000 Sister-Doctors; 25,000 Sister-Nurses; 10,000 plus paraprofessionals along with two lakhslay employees.
- Our MIs treat over 21 million patients every year other than 5,000 HIV patients, 3,500 children affected or infected with HIV, 10,000 children/young adults with disability and 15,000 children given community based care.
- Granted United Nations’Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) since 1st August 2013.
- On behalf of CHAI, Director-General Rev. Dr. Tomi Thomas, IMS, attended the 68th Session of the UN General Assembly Panel Discussion on“Child, Early and Forced Marriage Worldwide, including the Elaboration of the Post-2015 Development Agenda” at Trusteeship Council Chamber, CB, on 5 September,2014.
- Member of International Committee of Catholic Health Care, Rome, Advisory Board of Christian Journal for Global Health-Australia, Christian Coalition for Health (CCH), Christian Medical Association of India (CMAI), Christian Medical College (CMC) – Vellore and Ludhiana, CBCI-Coalition for AIDS and related Diseases (CBCI-CARD) and Emanuel Hospital Association (EHA)
- Vijay Bahuguna, Honourable Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, awarded CHAI a Certificate of Merit in recognition of the praiseworthy medical and relief work done during the devastating disaster that struck Uttarakhand in June 2013
- CHAI has a strong research wing. It presented research papers and posters at the following International Conferences
- International Pacific Rim Conference on Disability and Diversity, May2014, Honolulu, USA
- IFA 12th Ageing Conference, June 2014, Hyderabad
- European Post Polio Conference, June 2014, Amsterdam
- 45th UNION World Conference on Lung health, November 2014, Barcelona, Spain
- CHAI will present papers at the following International Conferences
- 14th World Congress on Public Health, February 2015, Kolkata
- 16thWorld Conference on Tobacco or Health, March 2015, Abu Dhabi
OUR INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTH:
| Types of Facilities* | No. | Types of Facilities | No. |
|
Curative Care:Primary care centres(1401 with nil beds & 903 with 1 to 10 beds) Secondary & Tertiary care hospitals, including 18 Hospitals offering DNB [With a total of 50,000 beds, both Health Centres and Hospitals together.] |
2307 621 |
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| Medical Colleges | 5 | Training institutions | 250 |
| Nursing Schools and Colleges | 134 | Counselling & De-addiction centre | 32 |
| Terminal/Palliative Care Centres | 82 | Disability rehabilitation centres | 210 |
| Mental Health Centres | 103 | Geriatric care centres | 121 |
| Leprosariums | 52 | Centres for Alternative and Complementary System of Medicine | 57 |
| HIV/AIDS Community Care Centers – including 40 centres for children infected/affected and 60 counselling centres | 123 |
Associate Members Social Service Societies |
203 318 |
| *Many of these institutions carry out more than one role. Hence, the aggregate of these varied institutions does not tally to total number of MIs (3481) mentioned above. | |||
| HUMAN RESOURCE | REACH | ||
| Category of Personnel | No. | Treating people in a year | > 21 million |
|
Sister-Doctors
Sister-Nurses
Sister-Paraprofessionals
Sister/Priests-Social Workers
Nursing students graduate every year |
>1,000
> 25,000
> 10,000
> 40,000
> 8,700 |
HIV patients given care per day
Children affected or infected with HIV provided institutional care
Children under community based care Educational, health & rehabilitation support annually for children with special needs SHG Members facilitated by CHAI member institutions and their sister concerns |
> 5000
> 2000
> 15,000
> 10,000
2 million |