CR Street Programme Starts Again!
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…
CR trains community women for health education
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…
Keeping staff safe – Uttara and other staff, Dr Jack’s benevolent fund
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…
Nimtala clinic’s new wound-dressing room is finally finished!
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…
‘Lost patient’ Badal returns to help the clinic
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…
Calcutta Rescue rescues the Canal East fire survivors
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…
CR Medical team to the rescue!
“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,…
Calcutta Rescue distributes smartphones to the students
Twenty Calcutta Rescue students were given new smartphones on Monday 17 August- allowing them to interact with their teachers online and access a wealth of internet learning materials. Many of the…
Letter from the CEO: Covid Update 6
Dear Friends of Calcutta Rescue, The situation here in Kolkata has altered dramatically since my last email so I thought it was high time to update you on what our…
Kolkata Covid Challenge Tops £120,000!
Massive thanks to everyone who supported the Kolkata Covid Challenge last month - so far we have raised an astonishing £120,000 (Euros 134,000/ 1,17,24,884 rupees!)This is by far the most…