SCHIEFFELIN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH – RESEARCH & LEPROSY CENTRE, KARIGIRI

Chidambaram Ramesh 46 months ago

Noble service to humanity. Takes care of leprosy patients. All skin related problems are attended to. There is general medicine, paediatric section, Opthalmology etc.

Joseph Sundaram 46 months ago

Schieffelin Institute of Health Research and Leprosy Centre (SIHRLC) has been working for the marginalised for the past 65 years. The founders had intended that it would be a shelter for people affected by leprosy, who were then ostracised and were not treated with dignity. Leprosy was and still is a highly stigmatised disease.
The Schieffelin Institute of Health Research & Training Centre, formerly known as SLRTC Karigiri, has now been in existence for more than 50 years. It was started as a facility exclusively for patients suffering from the dreaded scourge of leprosy. Today it is 150 bedded General Hospital, offering general medical care, but with a focus on leprosy.

Schieffelin Institute of Health - Research and Leprosy Centre (SIH-R & LC) is located near Vellore in Tamilnadu, was established in 1955 to care for the leprosy patients in and around Vellore and to set up a research institution to probe into the multifaceted problems of leprosy. Dr. Robert Cochrane was the moving force behind this venture.

260 acres of open scrubland, 20 Km from Christian Medical College (CMC) hospital, Vellore and 4 Km from any approach road was obtained from the Government. With the close cooperation of The Leprosy Mission (TLM) and the American Leprosy Missions (ALM) and CMC, the project gradually materialized.

The Schieffelin Leprosy Research Sanatorium was renamed the Schieffelin Leprosy Research & Training Centre in 1974. The institution was registered as a company in 1977 and became independent from all three founding organizations.

Over the past five decades SIH & RC treated leprosy and its complications, carried out state of the art research to understand the disease, and trained all levels of health personnel in management of leprosy.

Narayanan Naren 11 months ago

I suffered from skin disease for the past 1.5years after 3 visits of your hospital I completely cured I am very much thankful to your doctors and nice staffs