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Our History Medical Mission Sisters were founded in 1925 in Washington, D.C., by Austrian-born Dr. Anna Dengel. Working in what was then North India in the early 1920s, Anna Dengel experienced firsthand the unnecessary sickness and death of countless Muslim women and children, whose customs isolated them from medical care administered by male physicians. She became convinced that a group of women health professionals, who dedicated their lives to God, could make a difference in helping women to have access to the health care they deserved. Over the past 85 years Medical Mission Sisters have offered care and compassion to millions of individuals in our world. As the times and needs have evolved, so too has our focus in mission--from curative, to preventative, to promotive, to community-based, to wholistic health care. Today we also are involved in the introduction of low-cost alternatives to existing health care systems and advocacy for a just sharing of the limited resources in the one world in which we all live.
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