{"id":2823,"date":"2021-06-08T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2025-07-06T14:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T19:04:20","slug":"dr-sunil-chatterjee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2021\/dr-sunil-chatterjee\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Sunil Chatterjee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On June 8th we learned that Dr. Sunil Chatterjee passed away due to COVID-19 on May 7, 2021. Dr. Chatterjee served in Cambodia from 1985 to 1986 at the Prey Veng Provincial Hospital and Neak Leung Hospital. Please pray for India<\/a> because of the incredible loss and suffering caused by COVID-19 there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1980s, India was one of the only countries in the world that did not participate in international sanctions against Cambodia (then Kampuchea) and instead to recognize the country as it recovered from genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"\"
Dr. Sunil Chatterjee from the Dhamtari Christian Hospital in India examines a patient at the Provincial Hospital of Prey Veng province, Kampuchea (now Cambodia) in 1985. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

After the Khmer Rouge regime, it was estimated that only 25 doctors remained in Cambodia. 25 doctors for a population of 6.77 million. During this time MCC partnered with Dhamtari Christian Hospital in India to bring in Indian doctors to treat Cambodians and train local medical staff. Dr. Sunil and Dr. Veena Chatterjee came for 15 months and were the longest serving Dhamtari Christian Hospital medical team in Cambodia.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"\"
This is a 1986 photo of a Khmer student in Kampuchea (now Cambodia) thanking MCC staff Dr. Sunil Chatterjee for her MCC school kit. The school kits, gathered by Indian and Indonesian Mennonite churches, were assembled on a table in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n

The Chatterjees were also a host family for SALT participants<\/a> in India. I’m including a reflection written by SALT program alumni Jennifer Swartzentruber Shue who lived with them for 11 months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

[The Chatterjees] made my year so rich by giving me experiences in the community, church, hospital, and with their extended family and friends. I celebrated holidays with those of different backgrounds and learned about the culture, beauty, and diversity of India. I was stretched in my faith and grew through the many conversations with Sunil and Veena. Their friendship and love was a gift and I loved being a part of their family\u2026 We are meant to live in community with others and show hospitality. We have so much more in common than we have different if we take the time to explore that with each other. And God blesses us with relationships across countries and cultures to show us more of Himself.<\/p>\nJennifer Swartzentruber Shue<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\n
\"\"
Jennifer Shue (far left) with Sunil, Veena, and Sudhir Chatterjee in Dhamtari India when she was a SALTer 1997-1998.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Sunil Chatterjee and Jennifer Shue square dancing at her wedding reception in the USA in October 2000.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Sunil and Veena Chatterjee, with Tim, Jennifer, Harper, Sommer and Veena Shue (named after Jennifer’s host mother). At the Shues home in Kidron, Ohio, in 2015 when the Chatterjee\u2019s came to visit before Mennonite World Conference in Pennsylvania, USA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On June 8th we learned that Dr. Sunil Chatterjee passed away due to COVID-19 on May 7, 2021. Dr. Chatterjee served in Cambodia from 1985 to 1986 at the Prey Veng Provincial Hospital and Neak Leung Hospital. Please pray for India because of the incredible loss and suffering caused by COVID-19 there. In the 1980s,… <\/p>\n

Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[192,9],"tags":[117,181,95,140],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mcc-around-the-world","category-mcc-in-cambodia","tag-alumni-profile","tag-india","tag-prey-veng","tag-remembrance","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/RS112253_280-189-004.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVixa-Jx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6159,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/6159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}