'Germany Hospital'- Jhansi

St Jude’s Hospital, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh

Stepping down at the Jhansi railway station, I mentioned St Jude’s Hospital and was greeted with blank stares. In Jhansi, this centre is popular as the ‘Germany Hospital’, a throwback to the time when there where German missionaries in the region.

One of the main reasons to visit this centre was the opportunity of meeting three generations of Johnite doctors in the same Hospital. Sr Faustina( Batch of ’63) has been at this Hospital from the time the congregation was handed over the Hospital from the German missionaries. She and Dr Sr Herman ( Batch of ’64) established the services over the initial period. Sr Herman has since moved to Ashta in Madhya Pradesh, where she continues to do wonderful work, alone for the most part- still doing Caesarians and emergency procedures. Sr Faustina, despite a limiting stroke recently, does regular OPD work.

Dr Sr Faustina

Dr Sr Augusta

Sr Augusta (Batch of ’74) has been at the centre for 3o years now. A paediatrician, she has over the years developed services at the Hospital, which now is considered one of the better referral centres.

Dr Sr Bindu

Sr Bindu( Batch of 2000) is the junior Johnite here, She is learning the ropes before she moves on to her own centre in the outreaches ( Nagpur district).

At the Hospital Chapel