Arthur Colborne Lankester (1868–1963) worked for the Church Missionary Society (CMS) and took station in Punjab, Peshawar, and Sindh, India before the Indian Parition.
Lankester was a religiously motivated medical missionary who developed more efficient hospital designs that are still in use and also contributed to disease prevention in India.
[1][2] Later he went to work for the government of India as the Tuberculosis Officer as well as the Director of the Medical and Sanitation Department in Hyderabad.
[3] Lankester aimed to spread the gospel while performing his medical duties, treating conditions such as cataracts and general sickness.
Lankester brought this idea over from British hospitals and spread it to the South Asian medical system.
[8][9] After other missionary groups saw the success of Lankester's hospital, the Serai System began to spread worldwide.