In the isolated and remote villages of India, many have to walk miles before they can be treated for illness. Seeing this great need all over the country, IGL has responded by beginning to provide medical facilities in some villages.

Screening camps for cancer and other diseases are conducted frequently in IGL’s rural clinics. Also, part of medical missions, teams from the U.S. consisting of doctors, nurses, paramedics, and other medical personnel participate in these rural clinics.

Leprosy Care:
Leprosy is still one of the biggest social problems in India. More than five million people are now victims of this deadly disease. When people become afflicted with leprosy, their families simply abandon them. They are then forced to live on the streets and beg for food. It is heart-breaking to see these lost and lonely people with no one to care for or help them. At the sight of them most people turn and walk away.

India Gospel League currently helps more than 500 of Salem's desperately poor leprosy victims by providing them food, clothing, education, medical rehabilitation and housing.

On February 25, 1994, India Gospel League formalized an integral part of its medical outreach program by registering the Sharon Medical and Charitable Trust under the Indian Trusts Act of 1882. This Trust aims to provide quality medical care through the Sharon Cancer Center and General Hospital and Sharon Diagnostic Center. As one of only ten cancer centers in the country, it offers comprehensive cancer treatment for those in and around Salem living below the poverty line.

In 1998 the Cancer Center was fully functioning along with the Cancer Center Pharmacy and Hospice, all located at the hospital site at Sharon Gardens.

The hospital’s operation theatre was opened on June 19, 2000, and the first surgery, a Hemi-mandibulectomy, was performed. Since then the theatre has been used for over twenty surgeries.

The scope for training health workers is enormous. Recognizing this need, the Sharon Cancer Center initiated the Sharon School of Nursing in 1997. This nursing school not only helps train nurses for the hospital but also for other hospitals.