By Kampan Chinnam Bengaluru, Oct. 1, 2024: More than 200 nuns, priests and lay Catholics walked blindfolded in Bengaluru to raise awareness of the challenges faced by the visually impaired. “Christians in India can solve the problem of the shortage of corneas in India, which has one third of theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Secunderabad: The Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI) has launched the ‘Mary Glowrey – Liliane Brekelmans Disability Award 2021’. This award was instituted as a token of appreciation from Liliane Fonds (LF) of the Netherlands for CHAI’s services to 33000 children and youth with disabilities inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Secunderabad: The Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI), one of the world’s largest healthcare organizations, has reached out to around 3 million people in the past year. The association released its annual report at the recently concluded general body meeting. “During the financial year 2019-2020, CHAIContinue Reading
Secunderabad: Father Mathew Abraham, director-general of the Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI), has been reappointed to his current post. The current term of the present CHAI Director-General, Father Abraham, a Redemptorist priest, is due to end in April 2021. Based on the officially prescribed internal processes, the CHAI NationalContinue Reading
Secunderabad: The Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI) has mourned the death of one of its members, Sister John Sahya Rani. She died of Covid-19 at the age of 51. She had been in the Intensive Care Unit for about 12 days and succumbed to Covid-19 at 4 pm onContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Secunderabad, August 6, 2020: The premier healthcare organization of the Catholic Church in India has partnered with the University of Melbourne to roll out an online course for sister doctors. The course titled “Communicating “COVID-19” is designed to help clinicians communicate with patients, caretakers and theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Secunderabad, June 1, 2020: The Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI), a network of Catholic hospitals and healthcare centers across the country, plans to provide food kits to 1,000 families for six months. As part of socioeconomic support through its member institutions, CHAI is gearing upContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Hyderabad, Feb 8, 2020: The Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI) will collaborate with the Society of Jesus Mary Joseph to commemorate the 100th anniversary of its founder’s arrival in India. Sister Mary Glowrey, a member of the JMJ congregation and a Servant of God, arrivedContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Secunderabad, September 1, 2019: The Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI) in partnership with the Liliane Fonds (LF) of Netherlands organized the Mary Glowrey Liliane Brekelmans (MGLB) 2019 Disability Award. The awards are instituted to honor exemplary work in the field of disability by individuals andContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Secunderabad, May 2, 2019: Vikas (name changed), 8, and his younger sister faced their first ordeal of life when they lost both their parents, who were HIV positive. The parents were daily laborer struggling to eke a livelihood in Mumbai, despite being positive. After their death,Continue Reading
