The Schell Campus is our oldest campus primarily serving patients with ophthalmological problems. Apart from the Department of Ophthalmology, it also houses the Low Cost Effective Care Unit (LCECU) of the Department of Family Medicine. The LCECU was started on December 1982, in response to the needs of the poor in Vellore Town. Shalom is a part of Schell Eye campus across the road for urban slum dwellers.
This campus initially housed the Mary Taber Schell Memorial Hospital, started in the year 1902 by Dr. Ida Scudder as a 40-bedded hospital. It was named in memory of the wife of a New York-based benefactor who provided the initial amount to set up the hospital.
