The Salvation Army Catherine Booth Hospital (CBH) is a hospital and
nursing school
Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alle ...
run by the
Salvation Army
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in
Nagercoil
Nagercoil, natively spelt as Nāgarkovil (, "Temple of the Nāgas", or Nagaraja-Temple), is a Municipal Corporation city and the administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari District in Tamil Nadu state, India. Situated close to the tip of the ...
,
Kanyakumari
Kanyakumari (Tamil; / kəɳjɑkʊmɑɾiː/; referring to Devi Kanya Kumari, officially known as Kanniyakumari, formerly known as Cape Comorin) is a town and a municipality in Kanyakumari district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is the ...
,
Tamil Nadu
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,
India
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.
It is named after
Catherine Booth
Catherine Booth (''née'' Mumford, 17 January 1829 – 4 October 1890) was co-founder of The Salvation Army, along with her husband William Booth. Because of her influence in the formation of The Salvation Army she was known as the 'Moth ...
, the wife of
William Booth
William Booth (10 April 1829 – 20 August 1912) was an English Methodist preacher who, along with his wife, Catherine, founded the Salvation Army and became its first General (1878–1912). This Christian movement, founded in 1865, has a qu ...
, the founder of the Salvation Army. This hospital was started by Capt.
Henry John (Harry) Andrews, in the year of 1893. After he called by father of the medical work in the worldwide salvation army.
This mission hospital is situated at
Vadasery
Vadasery is an area/village of Nagercoil city in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu. It is also famous for its Christopher (mofussil) bus stand, one of the two bus termini in Nagercoil is located here. Long route (mofussil) buses to other distric ...
, Nagercoil, which is 18 km away from Kanyakumari. It was started in 1893 when missionary Harry Andrews treated the first patient in a tiny bath room. Since then it has grown into a 300-bed general hospital with departments of medicine, surgery, obstetrics, gynecology, pediatrics, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, and otorhinolaryngology. During the year 1900 the new building was inaugurated.
School of nursing
The school of nursing was added in 1938.
References
External links
Catherine Booth Hospital Picasaweb
Hospitals in Tamil Nadu
Salvation Army hospitals
Nursing schools in India
Salvationism in India
Hospitals established in 1893
1893 establishments in India
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