This week on the Global Impact Thread, hosts Mimi and Kim interview Dr. Aletta Bell about her lifelong medical work in North India. They discuss the unique opportunities that allowed her to become one of four women in her medical school graduating class of 60, and her Arabia experiences that revealed the need for women to provide medical care to Muslim women. You will hear about how she established a hospital in North India, passed leadership onto Indian Christians of the newly formed Emmanuel Hospital Association, began a pioneering work of Community Health and Development to reach the root causes of disease in North India, and inspired others to follow in her footsteps.
Within the interview you will hear references to:
Vellore Christian Medical College, and
Dr. Ida Scudder’s Biography in Dr. Ida by Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Listen to this podcast to more fully understand the health issues of women in India: “Public Health and Women’s Equality in the Church”
Read about other brave women doctors who overcame serious life obstacles to learn and serve others in “Our Heritage Part 4.”
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