World Health Organization (WHO) has recently estimated that every year, 290 000 to 650 000 deaths globally are associated with respiratory diseases from seasonal influenza. The best way to prevent that is to get vaccinated every year. The novel coronavirus also falls into the flu category. Most of the symptoms are similar to common influenza. […]
CR Provides Influenza Vaccines for High Risk Patients Read More »
As the pandemic period had started, Calcutta Rescue had stopped providing vaccinations to the children of the slum community contemplating the safety of the staff. After seven months CR decided to start the the services that were stopped. A few days ago Calcutta Rescue street medicine programme started. Read More: CR Street Medicine Programme Starts
Immunisation Programme Starts on World Immunisation Day Read More »
As the pandemic period had started, Calcutta Rescue had stopped providing vaccinations to the children of the slum community contemplating the safety of the staff. After seven months CR decided to start the the services that were stopped. A few days ago Calcutta Rescue street medicine programme started. Read More: CR Street Medicine Programme Starts
Vaccination Programme Starts on World Immunisation Day Read More »
The COVID pandemic has meant that, until now, it wasn’t safe for Calcutta Rescue’s street medicine ambulances to work in the slums. This has made access to medical care more difficult for many people. But the charity’s team now have the personal protective equipment they need and has developed ways of working which should keep
CR Street Programme Starts Again! Read More »
Due to the COVID pandemic, Calcutta Rescue street medicine ambulances have not been able to go to core slum areas and provide service like before. Currently, we are only able to serve our registered patients but there are more and more people who need us. It is important to reach out to these beneficiaries. Given the
CR trains community women for health education Read More »
The human cost of Covid-19 became very clear to staff at Calcutta Rescue in July when they lost a much-loved colleague to the virus. Uttara, who was a helper at Tala Park School, started feeling unwell on July 14. She isolated at home for a number of days but her condition worsened. Uttara was admitted
Keeping staff safe – Uttara and other staff, Dr Jack’s benevolent fund Read More »
It took six long months to build this small room where patients can have their dressings changed in private and in a hygenic setting. Building started back in January but came to a complete halt on March 25 when the nationwide lockdown was announced. The wound-dressing room was finally completed in June and has
Nimtala clinic’s new wound-dressing room is finally finished! Read More »
Badal was one of Calcutta Rescue’s ‘lost patients’ – people with serious medical conditions who the medical team lost touch with during India’s protracted Covid lockdown. Now Badal, who is 70 and has nasty ulcers on his feet, is back getting treatment at Nimtala Clinic and is helping track down other ‘lost patients’ Badal has
‘Lost patient’ Badal returns to help the clinic Read More »
A traumatised woman searches through the charred wreckage of her family’s home after a fire swept through Canal East slum in Kolkata earlier this month – destroying 54 huts and leaving 280 people homeless. A number of Calcutta Rescue patients lost all their possessions in the blaze and rang the charity to see if it
Calcutta Rescue rescues the Canal East fire survivors Read More »
“The risk of infection, the government lockdown, containment zones, monsoon floods, having to travel long distances…nothing can stop my team continuing to serve Calcutta Rescue’s beneficiaries.” So says Dr Ghosh, the deputy CEO (medical), who has been at the forefront of adapting the way the charity operates since the pandemic began. Here she talks about
CR Medical team to the rescue! Read More »
