St. Luke’s health centre is a charitable health institution owned by the sisters of the Congregation of Teresian Carmelites (CTC) and registered as Dakaita Teresian Carmelite Society under the Society Registration Act 21, 1860. It is situated at Dakaita, in Godda district of Jharkhand, INDIA and was established in 1974 for the care of Santhal tribal population of this area. Since then sisters are engaged in various health activities in and around this area, such as anti-natal care, deliveries, post-natal care, caring for the children, adolescents and geriatrics. Initially it was 40 bedded hospital where 25 beds were kept aside for TB patients as TB sanitarium and 15 beds for general patients. It was managed by GNM sister nurses of the congregation along with the visiting doctors until 2014. Dr Sr. Mary Laly C.T.C has joined the institution in 2014 after completing her MBBS, MD (General Medicine) from St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore which was a long-cherished desire of the congregation and mission province at Bihar & Jharkhand to extend quality health service to the under privileged and needy tribal people of the area. Since then, the hospital is blessed with doctor for 7x24 hours, slowly the hospital was upgraded with basic investigation facilities like laboratory services, X ray, ECG, Ultrasound, new IP block, OP block, ICU, Operation theatre. Currently it is a 100 bedded hospital with General medicine, Ob-gyn, Pediatric, Surgery, Dental and Ophthalmology services.
St Luke’s health centre started training of the tribal girls of the locality inspired by the founding charism of our mother Founder Blessed Mother Eliswa, to empower the women. Two years training (Diploma in Patient Care and DMLT) under Bharath Sevak Samaj (BSS) was started from 2017 to strengthening of manpower of St Luke’s health centre for the better service of the humanity and carrier-oriented training for the girls from the locality. Over the course of time with same intention and for the better Job opportunity for the girls GNM nursing school named St Luke’s School of Nursing was started in 2025 as St Luke’s Health Centre being the parental Hospital.
The operational vision and the beliefs of the Health Centre have been the following:
“Be a Compassionate healer” is the vision of St. Luke’s Health centre and has the following beliefs:
Within the premises of the Health Centre patients are the most important persons and all the health care activities are to be directed towards the alleviation of suffering and their well-being. The health centre stands for holistic health care in the footsteps of Jesus.