India, Dec. 9 -- Yesterday, December 8, marked the golden jubilee of an outstanding Koramangala institution that, since 1975, has kept its head down and beavered away at providing high-quality, ethical, and eminently affordable healthcare to thousands of Bangaloreans, across class, gender and age. We are speaking, of course, of the St John's Medical Hospital, a natural extension of the even older St John's Medical College, which consistently makes the cut as one of the country's top colleges on every assessment metric, even 62 years after its founding.

It was the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI), the permanent association of the Catholic Bishops of India, that set up St John's in 1963, as a self-financing private institution ...