Dr. Cecil Duncan
FounderFounder of Duncan Hospital
Dr. Cecil Duncan is the founder of Duncan Hospital[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare from Raxaul.
Duncan Hospital
Duncan Hospital is a 200-bed mission hospital in Raxaul, on the Bihar-Nepal border, founded in 1930 by Scottish surgeon Dr. Cecil Duncan and now run as a unit of the Emmanuel Hospital Association. It provides emergency, surgical, obstetric and gynaecological, paediatric, dental, radiology, laboratory and ICU/NICU services to a largely poor and marginalised population on both sides of the border. It also trains nurses through an attached nursing college.
Duncan Hospital reports the following, on its own site:
- 38,240 new patient registrations, 11,331 admissions, 7,050 surgeries and 2,496 deliveries in 2024-25
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- Raxaul
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References
- [1] “The Duncan Hospital, named after its founder missionary Dr. Cecil Duncan, a Scottish Surgeon, was strategically located to serve both the populations of Nepal & Northern Bihar (India).” — Duncan Hospital. Source
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