Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd CMC Vellore was established as a nursing and delivery clinic by an American missionary woman, Dr Ida Sophia Scudder.It has grown into a major world-class medical institution in India. Image: Wikimedia Commons Had a Hindutva organ ruled India after Independence and closed down CMC, Kattaiah would have died young; he broke superstition … Continue reading Why doesn’t RSS have a medical institution like CMC? Learnings from Kancha Kattaiah

by Bheenaveni Ram Shepherd In a record-setting case, an Indian patient lived 46 years after receiving a first-generation Edwards-Starr heart valve at CMCH in Vellore in 1979. His survival defied medical expectations — a powerful testament to how science, institutional motivation, and family care can together extend human longevity. In a world still reckoning with the … Continue reading A Rational Heart: How Reason and Care Sustained One of India’s Longest Heart Valve Survivors