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…
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…
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,…
Cyclone Amphan Update: Letter from the CEO
Dear Friends of Calcutta Rescue, I know that many of you will be worried about the situation following Cyclone Amphan last week, so I just want to give you a quick…
Calcutta Rescue Supporters knighted for 25 years of service to the poor in Kolkata
Congratulations have poured in from around the world for two of Calcutta Rescue’s most dedicated supporters who were knighted in Holland last month. Lilian Teunissen and Henk Loos were made…
Under Babita’s care, Calcutta Rescue TB patients are safe
Nothing is going to stop Babita from caring for her TB patients - not the lockdown, not staff shortages, not police barricades, nor even a shortage of the drugs they…
Calcutta Rescue goes orange for the day
On 25th November the atmosphere of Calcutta Rescue’s Tala Park Clinic could be described as ‘vibrant orange’! The clinic was decorated with orange balloons, orange threads were looped together, staff…