Edinburgh Churches have been associated with the Christian hospital at Chickballapur in South India, about 36 miles from Bangalore, for over a hundred years. The former Morningside Congregational Church had a particularly close association with Chickballapur. Our friends, Leslie and Betty Robinson spent their working lives there where Leslie was the surgeon and medical director. They have now retired to Rutherglen but continue to engage in fund-raising for Chickballapur.
With the retirement of the Robinsons, the hospital has come under the care of the Baptist Union of America which has a large hospital in Bangalore. We have received a request for support towards the purchase of operating theatre equipment to help with the new system of visiting teams of surgeons from Bangalore. Session has agreed to help and Outreach has advised that the collection to be taken up at the March Communion should be for this purpose.
M. Allan
