Bihar Voluntary Health Association

Bihar Voluntary Health Association (BVHA) is a Secular and non-profit making organization. It is an association of Social Development Organisations, Charitable Hospitals and Health Centres. It is formed in the year 1969 by Fr. James Stuart Tong and Medical Mission Sisters with a noble vision  got registered in February 1970 under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 at Patna, Bihar. it has been working on health improvement of Bihar through community health promotion for last five decades.

Presently, BVHA is an association of 152 member Organizations of Charitable Hospitals and Health Centers/clinics run by church based institutions, Grass-root CSOs, and more than 300 associated non-member organizations, covering all the 38 districts of Bihar.

It has been formed with an aim to increase their organizational capacities and to address the health and social needs of the communities. BVHA is one of the pioneers in the domain of Voluntary Health Association in India in India.