Healthcare has always been one of the priorities of the missionary community of Bijnor right from the beginning. Bishop Gratian was so particular about setting up dispensaries and clinics in the farthest areas of the diocese where public healthcare facilities were scarce or nil. The committed nun-nurses looked after the village dispensaries and clinics so wonderfully well. Those centres could save hundreds of lives – be it patients who suffered complications at childbirth, contagious diseases, snake bites, accident cases etc.

One of the long-lasting dreams of the diocese was actualized at the founding of St Mary’s Hospital in Najibabad, a township which can easily be accessed by road or rail. Our aim was to start a referral hospital to treat patients from all walks of life, especially the poor who cannot afford to pay for expensive treatments, without having to travel so long (as the nearest specialty hospital is in Meerut which is about 250 kilometres away). Patients from poor and low-income families benefit a lot from our hospital. Apart from this, as the motto of the Hospital suggests, “To give life to all in its fullness”, we provide free treatments to those deserving patients as well.