Debu, who is in charge of the project said: “Covid is not leaving us anytime soon. We don’t know when we will get vaccines. But those poorest of poor people who need immediate medical care will be deprived of necessary facilities if we don’t help them now. So with this thought in mind, we have decided to start the Street Medicine program again but with ultimate precautions, terms and conditions.”
To start with the program is running two days a week in two slums, Dakshineswar and Pahapur, which both have high levels of need and the space required to work safely.
After each visit the ambulances are thoroughly sanitised. After the system has been trialled in these two slums the aim is to roll it out to other areas.