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Danish Mission Hospital was started on December 14, 1911 by Dr Christian Frimodt-Moller of the Danish Missionary Society. The Hospital was started to give medicare to the rural poor and that vision has not been lost sight of even today. In an extensively commercial and competitive medicare scenario, Danish Mission Hospital still stands as the saving grace for the under privileged and the economically backward. In its heyday the Hospital was the only one of its kind and had been patronized by generations of families. For a myriad of reasons the Hospital went into a declining mode around 1994. No one single reason can be attributed as the cause, but it was the cumulative effect of many contributory factors. The net result was that the public lost faith in the Hospital and sought medicare elsewhere. The hardest hit were the poor. They could not afford the exorbitant costs of private practitioners who mushroomed around town, capitalizing on the failing effectiveness of the Hospital. Their only hope was the primary health centers run by the Government. In 1996 the Hospital touched its lowest ebb ever in its 87-year-old history. The legacy left behind by the Danish Missionaries was very close to being shut down. There were no doctors, no patients, a disgruntled staff, unpaid for months, uncared for and thoroughly demoralized. Nobody wanted to take over the Hospital; in fact, nobody wanted to touch it with a barge pole. At that time the situation was very grim. It was then that Ellen Blaesbjerg took up the challenge as Co-ordinator of the Revival Committee and worked relentlessly to turn the Hospital around. The results of her efforts are that today Danish Mission Hospital is once again a functional one. I remember a statement being made that nobody in his right mind would touch that hospital. Maybe, I was out of my mind when I accepted to touch it! This was in 1997. And - and I am not even a Doctor - just an ex-Air Force fighter pilot, fighting a different kind of war - a war in a scenario that prevents the rural sick from getting quality medicare because of poverty!! Be it what it may, the Hospital, today is, praise God, a functional one and regained its lost reputation. A 90 year old hospital was not going to be allowed to become history. -- Wing Commander Raju Asirvadam Come on in! You are welcome |
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