Guwahati, July 14 -- Kenneth V. Dodgson, the American medical missionary who spent nearly a quarter of a century transforming healthcare in Assam's Jorhat and performed more than 11,000 surgeries and deliveries, has died at the age of 100.

Dodgson passed away on July 12, four months after celebrating his centenary. His death was announced by the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in New York, where he studied theology before choosing a life of medical service that would leave an enduring legacy in Northeast India.

Commissioned by the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society along with his wife, Sally, in 1955, Dodgson arrived in Jorhat in 1957. Over the next 24 years, he helped transform the Jorhat Christian Medical Centre (JCMC) ...